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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...

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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...

English Language Education Promises Development

That the present global world promises the development of a developing country with the promotion of English language learning and information technology does not...

Milestone Tragedy and Our Response

Milestone School and College experienced quite an unexpected and unfathomable tragic incident, the first of its kind in Bangladesh. However, our response to that...

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Universal Primary Education and Bangladesh

The concept of universal education dates back to 2000 when UNESCO hosted the Dakar summit which was participated in by 180 countries. They committed to the simple but profound goal of achieving universal basic education by 2015. It actually involves entering the school at an appropriate age, progressing through the system, and completing a full cycle. It later became...

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New Vision Old Challenges: The State of Pre-primary Education in Bangladesh

SAMIR RANJAN NATH, GOUTAM ROY, M HABIBUR RAHMAN, KAZI SALEH AHMED and A MUSHTAQUE R CHOWDHURY Global attention and commitment to early childhood development is...

Ragging Culture in Bangladeshi Universities

The students enrolled in higher educational institutions with the hope of embracing a brighter future and achieving some noble objectives have to face the...

Some Misconceptions about Communicative Language Teaching

Why should we have a proper and clear idea about understanding Communicative Language Teaching? It is simply because of our national English curriculum, thousands...

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Plan to Introduce Diagnostic Assessment in Grade Six Calls for Appreciation

The students who get enrolled in class six after crossing the bar of the PECE examination show a considerable amount of weakness and learning...

Unitrack education system of Bangladesh

Education builds a nation. It is very important for Individual, Society and State. National development highly depends on Education. Education is the main component...

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...

The Hegemony of the Dominant: Barriers for building Popular Education in Bangladesh

Education is the gradual process of acquiring knowledge; it is a preparation for life. It is widely recognize that education serves as an engine...

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...

The Rationale behind the Strike of Government Primary School Teachers

No sooner had eighty thousand teachers of twenty thousand registered non-government primary schools left the street than the government primary school teachers occupied the...

Mark Bray on Shadow Education

Education planners and decision-makers have cast their eyes only on institutional education across the globe and its range covers from kindergarten to university level....

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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 gives birth to a child knows best the pain of childbirth”. This initiative has sparked hope and enthusiasm among the rural secondary English teachers. To speak the truth, we have discovered the hidden potentialities among...

Several Magics of SSC and Equivalent Examinations Remain Elusive

SSC and equivalent examinations started on 15 February, the written tests were completed on 12 March, and the practical examinations continued till 20 March, beginning from 13 March 2024. Today, 12 May, the results have come out, which means that in less than two months’ time, the results have appeared. Like in previous years, the Prime Minister actually inaugurated the...

Receiving TESOL President Award

Any kind of recognition to any innovative work works as a guiding force to go forward for any individual and organization. It’s an incentive as well. When it happens in the field of education it brings more pleasure for those who belong to this field. I have been in this line for quite a long time first as a...

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...

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Research and Our Universities

Today’s universities is featured and marked by teachers’ negligible or not at all involved in research and more involvement in teacher politics. Involvement in...

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...

How far JU Teachers’ demonstration justified?

Jahangir Nagar University, the only fully-fledged residential university stresses its campus on the beautiful lap of nature decorated with lakes, green foliage of trees...

Quality Assurance at the Affiliated Institutions of Higher Education of the National University of Bangladesh

Abstract: Research for this paper, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, has been carried out on quality assurance by  questionnaire, interview and observation ...

Admission into Higher Educational Institutions

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

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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