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SSC results reveal an unexpected reality serving as a wake-up call

The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations were published three weeks after the government's initial announcement that they would be made public. This late publication of results poses a pertinent question in the minds of around 19 lakh examinees and all others concerned. We guess that the new government wanted to evaluate the scripts of the SSC and equivalent examinees, genuinely breaking the previous years’ tradition of awarding inflated marks to students and hiding the real picture of their performance. The students, teachers, guardians, and the education administration of the country, however, were led to believe...

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SSC results reveal an unexpected reality serving as a wake-up call

The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations were published three weeks after the government's initial announcement that they would be...

What is the rationale behind establishing 600 Model Schools and Colleges?

Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields...

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Continuous syllabus and assessment changes, as well as experiments on young children, make them guinea pigs. The authorities continue doing so, ignoring the children’s...

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Causes behind Differential Performance in Various Types of BRAC Schools

GOUTAM ROY, NOTAN CHANDRA DUTTA and SAMIR RANJAN NATH wrote about differential performance in BRAC Schools Abstract: Differential learning achievement of the graduates of three types of BRAC schools viz., BRAC primary school, BRAC community school and BRAC formal school came out through a recent study with some hypothetical explanation of the reasons behind such difference. This study aims to...

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An Evaluation of BRAC Pre-primary Education Programme

MIRJA MOHAMMAD SHAHJAMAL and SAMIR RANJAN NATH wrote about BRAC Pre-primary Education ABSTRACT: BRAC operates over 20,000 pre-primary education centres in the areas of formal...

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The Guest Teacher: The Interesting Character for Building Dreams of the Young Learners

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Early Childhood Education in Bangladesh

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Ranking Secondary Schools

Ranking secondary schools has been done for the first time in Bangladesh by the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education at the behest of the Ministry of Education. The Planning Wing of DSHE has done this commendable job. Hats off the initiators. Schools will receive appreciation and admonition according to the ranking, they said. It has, no doubt, added...

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...

Senior Teacher Position Created with First-class Officer Status

The government secondary schools will see Senior Teacher position with the status of first-class gazetted officer that must be a welcome move. The number of government secondary schools had been only 317 for many years in a country of sixteen crore people that expresses stately importance towards this tier of education.  However, the non-government teacher associations have been struggling...

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World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

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SSC results reveal an unexpected reality serving as a wake-up call

The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations were published three weeks after the government's initial announcement that they would be made public. This late publication of results poses a pertinent question in the minds of...