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BCS Education Cadre Officials’ ‘No Promotion, No Work’ Movement

The deprived education cadre officials have received no promotion during the one-and-a-half-year period of the interim government, coupled with their promotion deprivation ranging from five to twelve years, has caused severe discontent among them. They are supposed to be assistant professors after five years of working. However, many general education cadres of 32nd BCS officials have not received promotion even after serving the nation for more than twelve years. More than 400 lecturers from the 32nd and 33rd batches have met a similar fate. Besides, those who have completed 34th BCS ten years, 35th BCS nine years, and 36th BCS seven...

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BCS Education Cadre Officials’ ‘No Promotion, No Work’ Movement

The deprived education cadre officials have received no promotion during the one-and-a-half-year period of the interim government, coupled with their promotion deprivation ranging from...

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The Voice of the Poor: Insights about the Poverty, Education, Development and Their Inter Relationship

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Decision to Conduct Online Examinations in Public Universities Calls for Appreciation

All forms of educational institutions have seen closure due to the corona pandemic for about fifteen months. At the primary and secondary level, the...

Educational Achievements of Bangladesh in the South Asian Context

Most of the south Asian countries possess some common characteristics. These countries are considered as less developed countries or developing countries. Almost all of...

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Causes behind Differential Performance in Various Types of BRAC Schools

GOUTAM ROY, NOTAN CHANDRA DUTTA and SAMIR RANJAN NATH wrote about differential performance in BRAC Schools Abstract: Differential learning achievement of the graduates of three types of BRAC schools viz., BRAC primary school, BRAC community school and BRAC formal school came out through a recent study with some hypothetical explanation of the reasons behind such difference. This study aims to...

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What Define Good Social Research?

Introduction The question of what defines good research is a great deal of attention, but too often it is conceived principally as a methodological question...

Importance of Workplace Learning for Skill Development

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Future of Business Studies in Private Varsities

There are two reasons for making business studies or business administration course market-driven. One is the success of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA);...

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How Secondary English Teachers Can be Developed into Trainers

It is the new initiative of BRAC to develop trained English teachers into trainers. It is based on the theory of “The mother who...

Existing Teaching-Learning Situation and Communication Skills of Our Learners

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Prospect of Mastery Learning in Bangladesh

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Recruiting Teachers Without Written Test: A Suicidal Decision

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Certificate Business in Private Universities

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Secondary School Teachers Conduct Classes in Colleges

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Science Education Declines in the Age of Science

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English Teachers’ Classroom Practices in Rural Secondary Schools: An Exploration of the Effect of BRAC Training

RIFAT AFROZE, MD. MAHBUBUL KABIR AND ARIFA RAHMAN wrote about BRAC Training ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effect of the BRAC training programme for English language teachers of rural non-government secondary schools. It examined the change in the teachers in terms of their pedagogic skills, language skills development, knowledge about Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and their attitudes towards this new...

What Students are Learning? Stop Staging the Theatre of Education

The COVID situation and the theatre of introducing a so-called 'competency-based' curriculum pushed the teaching and learning situation to the lowest rung. In the true sense of the term, the teaching-learning scenario, receiving and giving education evaporated many years back from our classes, educational institutions, and society, with some exceptions occurring in some institutions like missionary and privately run...

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The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of tertiary education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. over the years these institutions...

Admission into Higher Educational Institutions

For higher education, fifty thousand seats lie against about six and a half lac students. Moreover, another one lac student may be added to...

All Tiers of Education are Shrouded in Irregularities

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Dhaka University Must Retain Its Glory and Prove Centre of Excellence

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