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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!
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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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The Hegemony of the Dominant: Barriers for building Popular Education in Bangladesh
Education is the gradual process of acquiring knowledge; it is a preparation for life. It is widely recognize that education serves as an engine...
Unhealthy situation in Education Sector
Since education determines how strong the backbone of a nation is, it receives the topmost priority in many developing countries of the world. Bangladesh...
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...
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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 around the globe. In our new education policy, this idea has been ingrained. Of course, school feeding activities have been in vogue in some schools in limited areas run by non-government organizations. We hold many...
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Writing a Statement of Purpose
HELALI MORTUZA BHUIYAN wrote about Statement of Purpose 1. Preface This article is all about writing a good Statement of Purpose or SOP. I am assuming...
World Literacy Day and the Promise of Bangladesh
International Literacy Day has been observed over the last forty years. This year the literacy day is dedicated to “literacy for the 21st century”...
Gender Analysis of the Incumbent PRSP to Develop the Next 5-year Plan: Education Sector
NAZMUL AHSAN MIRAZ writes on PRSP It is well recognized that education is one of the key elements for building the knowledge base of the...
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The One Minute Manager in Non-formal Education Sector
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Dhaka University Must Retain Its Glory and Prove Centre of Excellence
Our glorious Dhaka University which produced many scholars, statesmen, diplomats, scientists, educationists and bureaucrats observed its 90th birth anniversary on July 01, 2011. It...
Individuality during Early Years
Individualized teaching is probably the most challenging, yet essential, part of the entire teaching-learning responsibilities of a teacher. In every classroom children from different...
Learner-centered Classroom for Real Learning and Higher Achievement
When the students take on greater responsibility for their own learning and gain greater independence is known as the learner-centered approach to instruction. We...
Teachers as Lifelong Learners
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Computer-Aided Learning can Develop Teaching-Learning Environment
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Individuality during Early Years
Individualized teaching is probably the most challenging, yet essential, part of the entire teaching-learning responsibilities of a teacher. In every classroom children from different...
Secondary Education
Several Magics of SSC and Equivalent Examinations Remain Elusive
SSC and equivalent examinations started on 15 February, the written tests were completed on 12 March, and the practical examinations continued till 20 March, beginning from 13 March 2024. Today, 12 May, the results have come out, which means that in less than two months’ time, the results have appeared. Like in previous years, the Prime Minister actually inaugurated the...
Teachers to Teach Subjects in New Curriculum
Now it is known to us that from the year 2023, new textbooks for grades six and seven have been developed in the light of the new curriculum, which is going to be implemented in January. The role of teachers will be of serious importance, and the assessment will see fifty per cent in the form of formative and...
Science Education Declines in the Age of Science
We are living in the age of science and computer. Till today we enjoy the most sophisticated scientific development. When and where its onward march stops are unknown to us. To cope with the situation we need to produce a procession of science graduates and a galaxy of experts in different branches of science. But we see a grim...
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...
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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...
Expansion of Private Higher Education
According to UNESCO, the region provides higher education including private higher education to just 3.5 of the college age population, compared with 60 per...
Quality Assurance at the Affiliated Institutions of Higher Education of the National University of Bangladesh
Abstract: Research for this paper, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, has been carried out on quality assurance by questionnaire, interview and observation ...
Government College Teachers Seek Justice
As a regular reader of English newspapers, I have gone through the lengthy thought-provoking and valuable writing of an unknown assistant professor of a...
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...
Research and Our Universities
Today’s universities is featured and marked by teachers’ negligible or not at all involved in research and more involvement in teacher politics. Involvement in...
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No Business with Education!
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