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When a group of people meet to generate new ideas around a specific area of interest, this situation can be called brainstorming which employs...
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No Business with Education!
In Chattogram, our Education Advisor recently said, “It will not take much time to change the country when education touches all. Education makes humans modest and gentle. A student who gets education from his family will never show pride; rather, he will be modest. So, there should not be any business with education. Education is a proper channel of becoming real human beings that all must remember.’’ I appreciate the nice words of our advisor, and side by side, I want to draw his kind attention to the fact that our education assumed a business shape many years back; it...
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No Business with Education!
In Chattogram, our Education Advisor recently said, “It will not take much time to change the country when education touches all. Education makes humans...
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...
Low-quality Books for Students Starting Next Year
If we look at NCTB from two decades ago until today, there is no room to appreciate it. Every year, heaps of allegations, complaints,...
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Teacher Development in Brazil
Teacher development is one of the most important concerns for education policymakers. There remain various factors regarding the issue of teacher development. To achieve...
How English Version School going on?
To keep pace with the fast-growing demand for English knowing people establishing English version school along with English medium has gained momentum in the...
Now Is the Time to Think of Quality Education and Drop out?
It looks strange that two contrasting phenomena exist side by side in our education system. One shows a competition to make the students pass...
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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 of receiving education at this level continue till the closing days of a human being. We boast of giving free and compulsory primary education to our future generation along with the free distribution of textbooks....
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Teachers to Teach Subjects in New Curriculum
Now it is known to us that from the year 2023, new textbooks for grades six and seven have been developed in the light...
Rickshaw puller Joynal Teaches Us a Lot
On Saturday the last page of Prothom Alo has brought out a feature on how a rickshaw puller runs a hospital and school. It...
The Future of Language Education in Bangladesh
Things have truly surfaced that students are still unable to use English in their practical life even though they attain good grades in the...
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Educational Achievements of Bangladesh in the South Asian Context
Most of the south Asian countries possess some common characteristics. These countries are considered as less developed countries or developing countries. Almost all of...
The Role of Technical and Vocational Education in the National Development of Bangladesh
Abstract Education is a basic human right and considered by many as a key tool for national development. However, this tenet has been challenged by...
Telecentre and Education: It’s time to bring together
Computer Training changed Ms. Khaleda’s life. Khaleda Akhter is the fourth child of her parents. His father is a poor day labor and mother...
The Status of Communicative English Language
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How to Make Boring Classes Interesting
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Program for International Student Assessment – PISA
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Proposed National Education Policy: Gender Perspective
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Subject-based Teacher in Secondary Schools
Secondary level education is the second important tier of education which experiences some anomalies and negligence from the authorities concerned for a long. Many changes call for monetary involvement whereas many don’t need money but can bring some positive changes in this sector. The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has recently sent a proposal to the Ministry of...
Ranking Secondary Schools
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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...
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...
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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...
An Evaluation Technique Towards Uniformity of PhD for Future World
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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...
Barishal and Jahngirnagar Universities see Volatile Situation
Even during the closure of corona two public universities namely Barishal and Jahangirnagar witness a very turbulent situation. On 16 February an altercation took...
Need Assessment of a Short Course on Educational Evaluation and Assessment
GOUTAM ROY and SAMIR RANJAN NATH wrote about the necessity a short course on Educational Evaluation and Assessment Abstract: The aim of this study was...
Expansion of Private Higher Education
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Primary Scholarship Exam – To Be or Not To Be!
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No Business with Education!
In Chattogram, our Education Advisor recently said, “It will not take much time to change the country when education touches all. Education makes humans modest and gentle. A student who gets education from his family will never show pride;...