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I Never Wanted to be an Educationist
Though I never wanted to become an educationist or a curriculum developer in my teenage years, I asked my teacher in 8th grade why the contents of our textbook seemed disorganized and repetitive. Moreover, why do they have different information and points of view on the same incident in various subjects? My teacher looked at me and said, "You should write it down and post the letter to the NCTB someday!" At 13, I was unaware of a career where I, as an educationist, could develop learning interventions, try them out with the communities, and develop a curriculum for mainstream students...
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I Never Wanted to be an Educationist
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I often find myself criticising governments worldwide for failing to create opportunities for poor people, especially in the education sector. We certainly should be...
Disaster Resilient Education: An Undialogued Agenda
Over the years, Bangladesh has confronted the challenges of natural disasters and tried to mitigate the risks associated with different disasters. Due to severity...
Disaster Resilient Education: An Undialogued Agenda
Over the years, Bangladesh has confronted the challenges of natural disasters and tried to mitigate the risks associated with different disasters. Due to severity...
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Observance of National Primary Education Week 2014 and Some Relevant Issues
National Primary Education Week 2014 was observed in the country which started from March 09 and it was inaugurated by Prime Minister at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. She made several important announcements in her inaugural speech. One was the upgrading of the status of government primary head teachers from grade III to grade II which calls for appreciation from all...
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Excitement with New Textbooks, Guidebooks also Flood Market
Bangladesh has occupied a unique position in the globe in many respects both in positive and negative senses. The distribution of new textbooks at...
Importance of Workplace Learning for Skill Development
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Textbook is a widely used teaching tool (curriculum material) which presents the subject matter defined by the curriculum. A university textbook is required to...
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The Expectation of Preparedness for 4th Industrial Revolution
Recently, a new slogan for the fourth industrial revolution got significant to the newspaper, writings and civil society discussions, like a talk show and...
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Since education determines how strong the backbone of a nation is, it receives the topmost priority in many developing countries of the world. Bangladesh...
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...
Do We Need More Public Universities?
The government has planned to establish five more public universities that has sparked a dozen questions whether we need more public universities at this...
Strategic Planning for Distance Education
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Women Education, Empowerment and Poverty Eradication
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Poor Performance of Private Teacher Training Colleges
A dark picture has revealed teacher training colleges when a survey was conducted by the ministry of education. The ministry of education found that...
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Science Education Declines in the Age of Science
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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...
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...
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....
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UGC Reveals Poor Performance of Public Universities
Recently the University Grants Commission or UGC has conducted a survey on our five public universities. It has revealed the findings which really tend...
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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...
Writing a Statement of Purpose
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Barishal and Jahngirnagar Universities see Volatile Situation
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