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...
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...
MOHAMMAD KOWSAR BHUIYAN wrote about Human Resource Development
In this present world, human being is considered as a national asset like the other assets. Human...
Education is recognized as one of the key elements for building an empowered knowledge-based society to meet the demands and challenges of the 21st Century that is also discussed in the MDG. Deprivation from getting access to education itself is a key element of poverty. In Bangladesh, deprivation among the poor and marginalized in accessing educational facilities is disproportionately...
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...
Milestone School and College experienced quite an unexpected and unfathomable tragic incident, the first of its kind in Bangladesh. However, our response to that...
According to UNESCO Institute for Statistics (n.d.), “the defining characteristic of non-formal education is that it is an addition, alternative and/or a complement to...
Sanjida Abedin Rafha discusses the medium of instruction at the different level of education in Bangladesh
Education is one kind of state of mind that...
The word ‘play’ itself sounds fun, free, engaging and enjoyable. Whenever we hear about play, we think about children, childhood or childlike activity and...
Whenever we see English questions, whether in public examinations, BCS, or any recruitment test, let alone the internal examinations of educational institutions, we can...
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...
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...
Higher Secondary Certificate examination or HSC results came out showing the upward trend raising the usual question of quality in the minds of the people concerned. It is true that the figure of the results is changing because of the factors like rising consciousness of the students, guardians and teachers, spreading the coaching business from city to the village,...
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 or say, it raises questions about the acceptability of public exam results.
I have witnessed the shams and scams in public examination results since 1991, when I first became an examiner at the Dhaka Education Board....
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 private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of tertiary education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. over the years these institutions...
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...
Once famous educationist and the ex-vice chancellor of Jahangirnar University Professor Zillur Rahman Siddique said in a function ‘living in the university campus itself...
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...
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...
