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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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The Education Reform: Learning from Vietnam Example
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Educational Crisis: Challenges and Way Forward
The Drawback and Need Power and Participation Research Center (PPRC) and BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) conducted a survey on education in villages...
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MDG and Education: Bangladesh Perspective
Education is recognized as one of the key elements for building an empowered knowledge-based society to meet the demands and challenges of the 21st Century that is also discussed in the MDG. Deprivation from getting access to education itself is a key element of poverty. In Bangladesh, deprivation among the poor and marginalized in accessing educational facilities is disproportionately...
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Exploring Low Performance in Education: The Case of Sylhet Division
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Introducing Problem Based Learning-2
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Project-based Learning (PBL) Combines Traditional Classroom Knowledge with Real-world Expertise (Part -1)
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NGO must be Apolitical
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English Teachers Need Formal Training
The other day I was talking to some students who belong to various colleges in the city of Dhaka. My focus was to know...
Unhealthy situation in Education Sector
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Virtual Classroom and Distance Learning: Bangladesh Perspective – 1
Universities are faced with the difficult problem of simultaneously keeping pace with the increased number of students and the increased extent of knowledge that...
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The Thought of Increasing Pass Rate Overshadows Quality
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Receiving TESOL President Award
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Teachers to Teach Subjects in New Curriculum
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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...
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Writing a Statement of Purpose
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How Private Universities Contribute to Tertiary Education
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What is Happening in the National University?
A series of irregularities of the National University of Bangladesh appeared in a Bengali daily (Jugantor April 19 to 23) drawing the attention of...
Decision to Conduct Online Examinations in Public Universities Calls for Appreciation
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Barishal and Jahngirnagar Universities see Volatile Situation
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Need Assessment of a Short Course on Educational Evaluation and Assessment
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