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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...

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Error Correction and Present Trend of Our Education System

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Causes behind Differential Performance in Various Types of BRAC Schools

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Bangabandhu’s Education Philosophy

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Open Book Examination: How and Why

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Girl Students’ Poor Accommodation in Public Universities

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Impacts and Lessons Learnt from the Kajoli ECE Model in Bangladesh

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The Present Secondary Education Scenario

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Subject-based Teacher in Secondary Schools

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What Students are Learning? Stop Staging the Theatre of Education

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Girl Students’ Poor Accommodation in Public Universities

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World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

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