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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...
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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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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...
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...
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...
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Government Primary Schools in Dhaka
My wife was asking me to find government primary schools adjacent to our home (Rampura) to get the boy who works as a domestic helper of our house enrolled to receive education comparatively at a cheap rate. I failed to give her the exact information which finally led her to get the boy enrolled in an NGO run school...
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Open Book Examination: How and Why
The assessment stands as an integral part of the teaching-learning process, and we assess our learners directly, indirectly, in the classroom, outside the classroom,...
Individual Learner Differences and Its Impact on English and Spanish Language Learning
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NGOs are dedicated to alleviating rural poverty as well as other areas of working like women empowerment and education NGOs emerged to supplement the...
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New Education Policy from 2013
The present education policy claims greater acceptance than the previous ones due to its strong base on huge public opinion. Introducing public interest-oriented and...
Gender-sensitive Education
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Do We Need More Public Universities?
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Education Policy must Give Importance to These Points
The present government is going to formulate a standard education policy as they said. Education is actually in shamble whatever complacency we show. You...
Variable and Its Measurement
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Child Protection Issues in Our Textbooks
The World Vision, a NGO working in Bangladesh since 1971 focusing on child care, concern and protection along with its other areas of intervention...
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Subject-based Teacher in Secondary Schools
Secondary level education is the second important tier of education which experiences some anomalies and negligence from the authorities concerned for a long. Many changes call for monetary involvement whereas many don’t need money but can bring some positive changes in this sector. The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has recently sent a proposal to the Ministry of...
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...
Secondary School Teachers Conduct Classes in Colleges
With a view to addressing the increasing crisis of admission into the intermediate level, the government turned ten government schools into colleges and this process was started in 2007 as a huge number of students passed the SSC examination that year. Firstly, Dhanmondi Government High School, Motijheel Government Boys’ High School and Sher-e-Banglanagar Boys’ High School introduced intermediate class....
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Girl Students’ Poor Accommodation in Public Universities
Once famous educationist and the ex-vice chancellor of Jahangirnar University Professor Zillur Rahman Siddique said in a function ‘living in the university campus itself...
An Evaluation Technique Towards Uniformity of PhD for Future World
Khaliduzzaman Alin discusses the evaluation techniques towards uniformity of PhD The world is advancing so fast and everything is going to be quantified. For example,...
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...
Honours and Masters in Non-Government Colleges
It is frequently heard that honours and masters in non-government colleges will be closed down. Our education minister says it on time and occasion...
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...
What is Happening in the National University?
A series of irregularities of the National University of Bangladesh appeared in a Bengali daily (Jugantor April 19 to 23) drawing the attention of...
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