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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!
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“Its time to school!” After waking up at morning we expect to see that every child is going to school and wish that they...
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MD. MAHBUB ALAM SARKAR and JUI JUDITH GOMES wrote about the conception of the science teachers Abstract: This study explored Bangladeshi science teachers’ conceptions of...
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The Rationale behind the Strike of Government Primary School Teachers
No sooner had eighty thousand teachers of twenty thousand registered non-government primary schools left the street than the government primary school teachers occupied the street. Thanks to the leaders of primary school teachers for selecting a very technical and strategic time to press home their demands. If the present regime gets back to power they will forget the demands...
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An Application of CLT Approach and Education Policy: Introducing a New Syllabus
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Necessary Skills for a Secondary School English Teacher
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Nationalization of Non-government Primary Schools
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Income Prospects of Vocational Education and Training
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An Application of CLT Approach and Education Policy: Introducing a New Syllabus
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NGO must be Apolitical
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Need Assessment of a Short Course on Educational Evaluation and Assessment
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Some Insides of This Year’s HSC Result
The national scene of education in terms of passes percentage in the secondary and higher secondary levels show a rising trend every year. But quality still remains a question. Maybe, the quality also is increasing but not up to the mark. This year the pass percentage of HSC has improved from last year’s 75.08 to 78.67. In 2010 this...
Ranking Secondary Schools
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Necessary Skills for a Secondary School English Teacher
The secondary level poses to be the most important tier of the education sector as it builds the foundation of other tiers. English stands as the most important subject at this level, which remains actually untreated in Bangladesh. Recently it has started receiving attention from the relevant corners in different forms. Language experts say an English teacher must have...
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Public universities are gripped with anomalies and saddest incidents imprinting a slur on the highest seats of learning in the country and exercising a...
Bangladeshi Vice-Chancellors Want the Status of MPs!
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All Tiers of Education are Shrouded in Irregularities
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Writing a Statement of Purpose
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