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The hierarchy of educational needs: Rethinking Bangladesh’s education reform priorities

A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration from Abraham Maslow’s famous “Hierarchy of Needs” theory, he attempted to reinterpret Bangladesh’s education system through a similar layered framework of needs. His post was not presented as a formal academic model or a research-based theory. Yet, as I read through it, I found myself deeply struck by its simplicity, clarity, and uncomfortable truth. Sometimes the most powerful ideas are not those emerging...

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The hierarchy of educational needs: Rethinking Bangladesh’s education reform priorities

A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt...

Using balanced skills for authentic and fruitful language teaching

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Islamized School, Specialized Madrasa and New Paths to Islamic Education in Bangladesh

Introduction It is needless to say that Madrasa education is one of the oldest education systems in the Indian subcontinent. It is a “purely” native...

Impact of World Bank’s Policies: Barriers for Community Development and Education for Social Justice

A Case Study on community development: “Ms. Setara Akter (17) of East Chorbata village of Subarnachar Upazila in Noakhali District was a student of...

No Business with Education!

In Chattogram, our Education Advisor recently said, “It will not take much time to change the country when education touches all. Education makes humans...

Primary Education

What is in Store for Out-of-School Children?

Bangladesh offers free and compulsory primary education to all school-aged children, and the government adopts various steps to make it successful as nobody would be left out-of-school. However, a still considerable number of children have been out-of-school because of dropout or have never been enrolled in school due to poverty that surfaces conflicting points between our plan and reality....

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Virtual Classroom and Distance Learning: Bangladesh Perspective – 3

The steps for virtual classroom and distance learning are discussed here. Step Five: Prepare and distribute contents This step focusing on the below mentioned questions....

ACS (American Chemical Society) Reference Style [Part-1]

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Project-based Learning Combines Traditional Classroom Knowledge with Real-world Expertise (Part -2)

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Australian Guide to Legal Citation Style [Part-2]

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Disaster Resilient Education: An Undialogued Agenda

Over the years, Bangladesh has confronted the challenges of natural disasters and tried to mitigate the risks associated with different disasters. Due to severity...

Building Trust through Connecting Classrooms Project

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Postgraduate Students’ Attitudes towards Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Regular School Settings

Abstract: Special teachers and regular teachers both have significant roles in implementing inclusive education. This study focused on attitudes of post graduate students towards...

What is in Store for Out-of-School Children?

Bangladesh offers free and compulsory primary education to all school-aged children, and the government adopts various steps to make it successful as nobody would...

Dogme ELT fosters a communicative atmosphere and natural learning

Dogme ELT is a communicative approach to language teaching that encourages teaching without published textbooks and emphasises conversational communication among learners and teachers. It is...

Making Language Teaching More Communicative

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Secondary Education

This Year’s HSC Results Tell Many Things About Our Educational Arena

Higher Secondary Certificate examination or HSC results came out showing the upward trend raising the usual question of quality in the minds of the people concerned. It is true that the figure of the results is changing because of the factors like rising consciousness of the students, guardians and teachers, spreading the coaching business from city to the village,...

HSC Result and Our Politics

The results of the Higher Secondary Examination or HSC result help students determine the future course of study and aim of life. Hence, it attaches much importance. This year 74.30 per cent of students passed the HSC examinations against 78.67 per cent of the previous year. Besides the pass rate, the results also showed a decline in the number...

SSC results reveal an unexpected reality serving as a wake-up call

The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations were published three weeks after the government's initial announcement that they would be made public. This late publication of results poses a pertinent question in the minds of around 19 lakh examinees and all others concerned. We guess that the new government wanted to evaluate the scripts of the...

Necessary Skills for a Secondary School English Teacher

The secondary level poses to be the most important tier of the education sector as it builds the foundation of other tiers. English stands as the most important subject at this level, which remains actually untreated in Bangladesh. Recently it has started receiving attention from the relevant corners in different forms. Language experts say an English teacher must have...

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Ranking Higher Educational Institutions

Ranking higher educational institutions such as universities is a crucial task. It entails one’s thinking on how to rank the universities. What should be...

Expansion of Private Higher Education

According to UNESCO, the region provides higher education including private higher education to just 3.5 of the college age population, compared with 60 per...

Research and Our Universities

Today’s universities is featured and marked by teachers’ negligible or not at all involved in research and more involvement in teacher politics. Involvement in...

World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

Mahbub Alam Prodip writes about Bangladeshi University Ranking The ‘Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)’, ‘Times Higher Education (THE)’, ‘The Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)’ and ‘The...

Is New Admission System in MBBS and BDS Bliss or Bane?

The hasty decision of the ministry of health regarding the admission test for admission seekers to MBBS and BDS course has sparked protest across...

Decision to Conduct Online Examinations in Public Universities Calls for Appreciation

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The hierarchy of educational needs: Rethinking Bangladesh’s education reform priorities

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