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Expected education budget 2026-27

The nation is eagerly awaiting an exciting, people-friendly budget 2026-2027 from the new government that reflects most of their desires. It is expected that the new government’s budget 2026-2027 will be placed based on the lessons learned from the previous government’s budgets. Education Budget as a share of the Total Budget and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expenditure on education as a percentage has not shown a positive trend over the previous fiscal years. The expenditure on education as a share of GDP has been less than 2 per cent between FY2016 and FY2026. The revised budget for the education sector as...

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Expected education budget 2026-27

The nation is eagerly awaiting an exciting, people-friendly budget 2026-2027 from the new government that reflects most of their desires. It is expected that...

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Expectations from the New Government to Remove the Ills of Education

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Education Policy must Give Importance to These Points

The present government is going to formulate a standard education policy as they said. Education is actually in shamble whatever complacency we show. You...

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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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Quality Primary Education is in shambles

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Building Trust through Connecting Classrooms Project

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Community Monitoring : How Can the Community Participate in Monitoring?

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Government Teachers’ Activities Encourage Further Privatisation of Education!

Do government teachers’ activities encourage further privatisation of education? Education has yet to overcome its negative aspects, which it has been struggling with for...

REFLECT – Non-primer Based Approach of Adult Literacy

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Creative System has Created a Quagmire

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Income Prospects of Vocational Education and Training

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Neo-Liberal Hegemony and The Education Policy of Bangladesh

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Now Is the Time to Think of Quality Education and Drop out?

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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...

Secondary School Teachers Conduct Classes in Colleges

With a view to addressing the increasing crisis of admission into the intermediate level, the government turned ten government schools into colleges and this process was started in 2007 as a huge number of students passed the SSC examination that year. Firstly, Dhanmondi Government High School, Motijheel Government Boys’ High School and Sher-e-Banglanagar Boys’ High School introduced intermediate class....

What Students are Learning? Stop Staging the Theatre of Education

The COVID situation and the theatre of introducing a so-called 'competency-based' curriculum pushed the teaching and learning situation to the lowest rung. In the true sense of the term, the teaching-learning scenario, receiving and giving education evaporated many years back from our classes, educational institutions, and society, with some exceptions occurring in some institutions like missionary and privately run...

Dropped Out Students in the SSC are Mostly Girls

SSC examination on the short syllabus is going to start on 14 November and end on 23 November. Collecting a certificate by sitting practically for examination retains much significance and pure joy, which our students missed due to Corona for the last two years. What's about the dropped out students? Evaluation is an important part of the teaching-learning process. However,...

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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...

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...

How Private Universities Contribute to Tertiary Education

The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of tertiary education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. over the years these institutions...

Barishal and Jahngirnagar Universities see Volatile Situation

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World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

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For higher education, fifty thousand seats lie against about six and a half lac students. Moreover, another one lac student may be added to...

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