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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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Causes behind Differential Performance in Various Types of BRAC Schools
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Bangabandhu’s Education Philosophy
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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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Trainers’ Conference
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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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Girl Students’ Poor Accommodation in Public Universities
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