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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...

DC Conference: Educational issues discussed on the first day

The DC Conference 2026, the first of its kind since the BNP government came to power after the 12 February National Election, is taking...

Getting tougher in public examinations means taking steps to ensure quality education

The country's SSC and equivalent public examinations will begin on 21 April, the first of its kind since the new government assumed office. The...

Education Policy

Refugee Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World

Refugee Education in South Asia: Policies, Practices, and Implications stands in the form of an anthology of nine research papers that tends to unfold...

BCS Education Cadre Officials’ ‘No Promotion, No Work’ Movement

The deprived education cadre officials have received no promotion during the one-and-a-half-year period of the interim government, coupled with their promotion deprivation ranging from...

The Economics of School Drop-Outs

“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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School Feeding Program Can Make A Big Difference

Though school feeding program seems to be a new phenomenon in our educational context, it goes on in many developing countries with good impact around the globe. In our new education policy, this idea has been ingrained. Of course, school feeding activities have been in vogue in some schools in limited areas run by non-government organizations. We hold many...

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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...

Primary Education must be Most Attractive and Based on Strong Footing

Primary education must be very much attractive and interesting with giving the very basic facts of the subjects children can digest as the impression...

How Secondary English Teachers Can be Developed into Trainers

It is the new initiative of BRAC to develop trained English teachers into trainers. It is based on the theory of “The mother who...

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Role of Education in National Development

Education unquestionably plays a vital role in national development. Private higher education market is particularly complex as measurement of the 'educational product' is a...

The Voice of the Poor: Insights about the Poverty, Education, Development and Their Inter Relationship

MOHAMMAD TAREQUE RAHMAN wrote about Voice of the Poor Introduction We have come to such a time while the importance of quality education is entirely recognized....

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...

A Study on New Curriculum: Grade Seven Students’ Status in English

Bangladesh has experienced a new curriculum, mostly known as a ‘competency-based’ curriculum, since January 2023. The teachers who teach English say the curriculum and...

Translingualism: Languages Incorporating Differences

Language is the way of communicating meaning. It does not stop at one time as it is continually transformed by speakers at every moment...

Goal of Education is to Attain Knowledge

According to experts, the goal of education is fourfold, i.e. the social purpose, intellectual purpose, economic purpose, and civic purpose. Contemporary education issues include...

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...

Secondary Education

Trainers’ Conference

With a view to improving the quality of secondary education in Bangladesh, the government has taken different initiatives. Providing training to the teachers is one of the significant mechanisms aiming to develop their creativity and innovation. BRAC is supplementing the government’s efforts in these areas. It’s a matter of great pleasure for all of us that secondary level education...

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...

Science Education Declines in the Age of Science

We are living in the age of science and computer. Till today we enjoy the most sophisticated scientific development. When and where its onward march stops are unknown to us. To cope with the situation we need to produce a procession of science graduates and a galaxy of experts in different branches of science. But we see a grim...

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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Private Universities in Bangladesh: Navigation through Odds and Favours

The existence of private universities in Bangladesh is now a visual reality. Our memory dates back to 1992, when our country saw eleven public...

Dhaka University Must Retain Its Glory and Prove Centre of Excellence

Our glorious Dhaka University which produced many scholars, statesmen, diplomats, scientists, educationists and bureaucrats observed its 90th birth anniversary on July 01, 2011. It...

World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

Mahbub Alam Prodip writes about Bangladeshi University Ranking The ‘Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)’, ‘Times Higher Education (THE)’, ‘The Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)’ and ‘The...

Student Attendance System

GAZI MUSAYAB, FAHMED BIN NEWAZ, KAZI WASIM UZZAMAN and RENESA RAHMAN wrote about Attendance System Introduction Attendance Management System is a database system that has been...

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...

Future of Business Studies in Private Varsities

There are two reasons for making business studies or business administration course market-driven. One is the success of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA);...

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