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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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Primary Scholarship Exam – To Be or Not To Be!
There was a time when primary scholarship was conducted after completing the annual examination of class five. Usually, the students who occupied top positions in the internal examinations were allowed to sit for this examination. The successful examinees used to obtain monthly scholarship money, and these students were tagged as ‘scholars. Similar things happened in the SSC and HSC examinations,...
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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...
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Introducing Problem Based Learning (PBL) – 1
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A Study on New Curriculum: Grade Seven Students’ Status in English
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The Thought of Increasing Pass Rate Overshadows Quality
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I Never Wanted to be an Educationist
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