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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...
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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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The Bengali poet Golam Mostofa writes, “ Future fathers lie sleeping in every child.” Children can be powerful agents of social and economic change...
The Education Reform: Learning from Vietnam Example
The ignition In a recent interview, Dr. Manzoor Ahmed, Professor Emeritus, BRAC University, interpreted the education status of some Asian countries which are much more...
Education for All: Accountable Policy
KHANDAKER LUTFUL KHALED and MOHAMMAD NORUL ALAM RAJU wrote about a component of Education for All Education has got the highest potential to secure social justice....
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What is in Store for Out-of-School Children?
Bangladesh offers free and compulsory primary education to all school-aged children, and the government adopts various steps to make it successful as nobody would be left out-of-school. However, a still considerable number of children have been out-of-school because of dropout or have never been enrolled in school due to poverty that surfaces conflicting points between our plan and reality....
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Play: A Pathway of Children’s Cognitive Development
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“When a child reaches the age-appropriate for enrolling in class-I, he or she should have to be admitted, and there's no need to sit...
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Some Teaching Principles
In the language teaching profession, we have the best and worst experiences. After many years of teaching, we have information that seems to be...
Literacy and Adult Education in Bangladesh: Concept, Trends, Status and The Future
MOHAMMAD MUNTASIM TANVIR Abstract This paper examines the literacy scenario firmly rooted in the historical context. Secondly, it reviews the international and national policy commitments to...
Education and Human Resource Development
MOHAMMAD KOWSAR BHUIYAN wrote about Human Resource Development In this present world, human being is considered as a national asset like the other assets. Human...
Some Insides of This Year’s HSC Result
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Variable and Its Measurement
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What Does Jagannath University Incident Teach Us?
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REFLECT – Non-primer Based Approach of Adult Literacy
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Science Education Declines in the Age of Science
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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...
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...
Ranking Secondary Schools
Ranking secondary schools has been done for the first time in Bangladesh by the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education at the behest of the Ministry of Education. The Planning Wing of DSHE has done this commendable job. Hats off the initiators. Schools will receive appreciation and admonition according to the ranking, they said. It has, no doubt, added...
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Campus Police
A timely and thought-provoking article appeared in the Daily Star of its September 9 issue under the caption ‘Campus Police’ which received my attention...
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...
Admission into Higher Educational Institutions
For higher education, fifty thousand seats lie against about six and a half lac students. Moreover, another one lac student may be added to...
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...
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 ...
UGC Reveals Poor Performance of Public Universities
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