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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 modest and gentle. A student who gets education from his family will never show pride; rather, he will be modest. So, there should not be any business with education. Education is a proper channel of becoming real human beings that all must remember.’’ I appreciate the nice words of our advisor, and side by side, I want to draw his kind attention to the fact that our education assumed a business shape many years back; it...
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No Business with Education!
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The co-chairman of the National Education Committee 2009 and renowned economist Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad opined that we are experimenting with our education too much.
Focusing on Education: Importance and Necessity
Bangladesh is a densely populated country moving from an agricultural to an industry-based economy, which has been expedited within the recent decade. Is this...
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Exploring Low Performance in Education: The Case of Sylhet Division
Research Team: Samir Ranjan Nath, Md. Mahbubul Kabir, Kazi Saleh Ahmed, Goutam Roy, Awlad Hossain, S. M. Nurul Alam, Fazlul Karim Chowdhury, Amina Mahbub wrote about Low performance in education Reviewers: Manzoor Ahmed, Kazi Fazlur Rahman, Jowshan Ara Rahman, Roushan Jahan, Ahmed Al- Kabir Editors: A. M. R. Chowdhury, Rasheda K. Choudhury Overview A. Background Bangladesh has made progress in various arena of socio-economic...
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Nationalization of Non-government Primary Schools
Primary education of any nation attaches the upmost importance as it indicates the base of real education. The more it is strong; the future...
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Now Is the Time to Think of Quality Education and Drop out?
It looks strange that two contrasting phenomena exist side by side in our education system. One shows a competition to make the students pass...
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Bringing Change in Teachers’ Professional Development Initiatives: Learning from English in Action (EiA) Project in Bangladesh
Abstract: This essay seeks to explore the potential opportunities and challenges of the teachers’ professional development model of English in Action (EiA) project in...
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Teachers’ Agitation and Their Responsibility
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Some Misconceptions about Communicative Language Teaching
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Bangladeshi People’s English Skills in the Global Standard
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English Teachers’ Classroom Practices in Rural Secondary Schools: An Exploration of the Effect of BRAC Training
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Some Insides of This Year’s HSC Result
The national scene of education in terms of passes percentage in the secondary and higher secondary levels show a rising trend every year. But quality still remains a question. Maybe, the quality also is increasing but not up to the mark. This year the pass percentage of HSC has improved from last year’s 75.08 to 78.67. In 2010 this...
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,...
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 gives birth to a child knows best the pain of childbirth”. This initiative has sparked hope and enthusiasm among the rural secondary English teachers. To speak the truth, we have discovered the hidden potentialities among...
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Private University and Higher Education
The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of higher education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. Over the years these institutions...
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For higher education, fifty thousand seats lie against about six and a half lac students. Moreover, another one lac student may be added to...
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Certificate Business in Private Universities
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Decision to Conduct Online Examinations in Public Universities Calls for Appreciation
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Government College Teachers Seek Justice
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