A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration from Abraham Maslow’s famous “Hierarchy of Needs” theory, he attempted to reinterpret Bangladesh’s education system through a similar layered framework of needs. His post was not presented as a formal academic model or a research-based theory. Yet, as I read through it, I found myself deeply struck by its simplicity, clarity, and uncomfortable truth.
Sometimes the most powerful ideas are not those emerging...
In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...
When 56,000 scripts of a public examination show changed marks and grades, it undeniably reveals serious scams in our evaluation system. Whatever we do...
The nation has just observed its 40th Victory Day anniversary and stepped into the 41st year of our achievement of freedom. Our greatest achievement...
The primary completion examinations 2012 of general and madrasa education just completed with some 29.69 lakh examinees. This year the primary completion examination has taken place at 6,364 centers across the country and another eight centers overseas. A total of 26,41,067 general and 3,28,326 madrasa students have registered to sit for the exams while the number of female examinees...
Regional disparities in education have evinced this year’s Education Watch report as a key factor lying in the educational arena of our country. They...
Introduction
Qualitative data, in the form of words rather than numbers, are a source of well-grounded, rich descriptions and explanations of processes occurring in the...
In order to continue raising academic standards, we need to constantly examine and explore our methods of teaching. We need to observe other teachers’...
The role of education is to build the nation and making linkages with knowledge and empowerment. It is true that education directly influences politics,...
A storytelling classroom is a lively language practice venue. It ensures to develop learners’ necessary fluency as well as confidence which is a must...
A storytelling classroom is a lively language practice venue. It ensures to develop learners’ necessary fluency as well as confidence which is a must...
Dogme ELT is a communicative approach to language teaching that encourages teaching without published textbooks and emphasises conversational communication among learners and teachers.
It is...
Now it is known to us that from the year 2023, new textbooks for grades six and seven have been developed in the light of the new curriculum, which is going to be implemented in January. The role of teachers will be of serious importance, and the assessment will see fifty per cent in the form of formative and...
SSC examination on the short syllabus is going to start on 14 November and end on 23 November. Collecting a certificate by sitting practically for examination retains much significance and pure joy, which our students missed due to Corona for the last two years. What's about the dropped out students?
Evaluation is an important part of the teaching-learning process. However,...
Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields without giving a second thought to whether those fields really need the changes the government is planning, ignoring the long-standing, must-be-solved problems of those areas.
That is why the exceptional thoughts sometimes appear as absurd. Some...
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...
Khaliduzzaman Alin discusses the evaluation techniques towards uniformity of PhD
The world is advancing so fast and everything is going to be quantified. For example,...
Ranking higher educational institutions such as universities is a crucial task. It entails one’s thinking on how to rank the universities. What should be...
The government has planned to establish five more public universities that has sparked a dozen questions whether we need more public universities at this...
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);...
A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration...
In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...
When 56,000 scripts of a public examination show changed marks and grades, it undeniably reveals serious scams in our evaluation system. Whatever we do...
Is storytelling a powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar? Teaching English using isolated grammar has become an established practice in our English teaching...
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...
Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields...
Our familiarity with Bloom’s Taxonomy may be greater than SOLO Taxonomy. Bloom’s Taxonomy organises learning objectives hierarchically from basic recall to creation, while SOLO...
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...
A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration from Abraham...
