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When a group of people meet to generate new ideas around a specific area of interest, this situation can be called brainstorming which employs...
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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!
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 Scholarship Exam – To Be or Not To Be!
There was a time when primary scholarship was conducted after completing the annual examination of class five. Usually, the students who occupied top positions...
Low-quality Books for Students Starting Next Year
If we look at NCTB from two decades ago until today, there is no room to appreciate it. Every year, heaps of allegations, complaints,...
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English Language Education Promises Development
That the present global world promises the development of a developing country with the promotion of English language learning and information technology does not...
Refugee Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World
Refugee Education in South Asia: Policies, Practices, and Implications stands in the form of an anthology of nine research papers that tends to unfold...
Educational Crisis in Bangladesh
It is admirable that the enrolment rate is rising along with gender parity in the primary schools of Bangladesh. Moreover, public expenditure for education...
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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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Our Children are Under House Arrest
Modern civilization has given us a lot. It has taken a lot of things from us as well. Children after coming to this planet...
Rate of Return of Education in Bangladesh: An investigation
Abstract: This article examines the contribution made by education in Bangladesh using primary data gained form a small scale of research. Secondary data also...
Project-based Learning (PBL) Combines Traditional Classroom Knowledge with Real-world Expertise (Part -1)
We are to prepare our learners to face the challenges of the 21st century. So, the old-school model of passively learning facts and reciting...
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Student Attendance System
GAZI MUSAYAB, FAHMED BIN NEWAZ, KAZI WASIM UZZAMAN and RENESA RAHMAN wrote about Attendance System Introduction Attendance Management System is a database system that has been...
The Guest Teacher: The Interesting Character for Building Dreams of the Young Learners
The classroom in primary and secondary schools in Bangladesh is compact and trodden with so many rules of discipline. Learners are busy with reading...
School Feeding Program Can Make A Big Difference
Though school feeding program seems to be a new phenomenon in our educational context, it goes on in many developing countries with good impact...
Application of Innovative Technologies in Teaching-Learning Process: A Mission for Building Knowledge Based Society in Bangladesh
Abstract: Today’s world is shaped by availability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Because global economy is powered by knowledge and technology, fueled by...
Universal Primary Education and Bangladesh
The concept of universal education dates back to 2000 when UNESCO hosted the Dakar summit which was participated in by 180 countries. They committed...
Certificate Business in Private Universities
A very recent report regarding the education of private universities was released in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on education ministry meeting which has baffled...
Mark Bray on Shadow Education
Education planners and decision-makers have cast their eyes only on institutional education across the globe and its range covers from kindergarten to university level....
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The Present Secondary Education Scenario
It is true that the education sector has received significant importance from the government under the able guidance of Nurul Islam Nahid, the minister for education. Still many flows have been discerned in this sector which tends to threaten the smooth running of this field. Several alarming figures in the secondary level education of the country appeared in different...
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...
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...
A Study on New Curriculum: Grade Seven Students’ Status in English
Bangladesh has experienced a new curriculum, mostly known as a ‘competency-based’ curriculum, since January 2023. The teachers who teach English say the curriculum and the textbooks based on the spirit of this curriculum have been designed quite differently from the previous ones. One of the most important changes is that students do not have or very little homework, which exacerbates...
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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...
Barishal and Jahngirnagar Universities see Volatile Situation
Even during the closure of corona two public universities namely Barishal and Jahangirnagar witness a very turbulent situation. On 16 February an altercation took...
All Tiers of Education are Shrouded in Irregularities
A series of incidents have taken place in almost all the higher seats of learning in the country along with surfacing some different problems,...
Current Private University Scenario
The birth of the private university in Bangladesh has passed more than two decades. Now their existence is a visual reality with significantly successful...
Do We Need More Public Universities?
The government has planned to establish five more public universities that has sparked a dozen questions whether we need more public universities at this...
I Never Wanted to be an Educationist
Though I never wanted to become an educationist or a curriculum developer in my teenage years, I asked my teacher in 8th grade why...
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Primary Scholarship Exam – To Be or Not To Be!
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No Business with Education!
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