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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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New Ways of Assessment: Good or Bad for Twenty Million Little Children!

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...

Use of ICT in Gender Equalization

A. H. M. KAMAL wrote about Use of ICT Abstract: In Bangladesh women are not attaining the position in the job field in an equal...

Are We Experimenting with Our Education Too Much?

The co-chairman of the National Education Committee 2009 and renowned economist Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad opined that we are experimenting with our education too much.

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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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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...

Community Monitoring : How Can the Community Participate in Monitoring?

Curriculum, the widespread terminology After getting near about 100% of students in the schooling system in Bangladesh, the most uttered terminology is quality and secondary...

Inclusive Education in Bangladesh: Trend or requirement?

Inclusive Education has become one of the major focuses of the policies of governments across many parts of the world. Education reform is seen...

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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...

Nationalisation of Education: BNP’s Stance and Promise  

A grand rally was held on 07 October 2025 at Shurawardy Uddayan on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, where teachers gathered with the...

Sir Abed Wins WISE – Nobel Award in Education

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder and chairperson of BRAC, was honoured with the third World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha on...

Community: The Primary Stakeholder of Education

Education, the right for children Education is for whom? Why is education needed? Is that notion clear to all? Who is the primary beneficiary of...

Introducing Problem Based Learning (PBL) – 1

PBL: Learning From the dawn of civilization The advent of new ideas in society bares the potential of being scrutinized by humanity. Education reform is...

We Have Enough Trained Teachers, but Very Few Skilled Teachers

We have enough trained teachers, but do we have enough skilled teachers? Training and skills do not mean the same thing. Teachers must immerse...

The Necessity of Lesson Plan

A lesson plan is a written statement or outline by a teacher that fulfills the following stages of a lesson. (i) What do you want...

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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...

This Year’s HSC Results Tell Many Things About Our Educational Arena

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,...

The Present Secondary Education Scenario

It is true that the education sector has received significant importance from the government under the able guidance of Nurul Islam Nahid, the minister for education. Still many flows have been discerned in this sector which tends to threaten the smooth running of this field. Several alarming figures in the secondary level education of the country appeared in different...

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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Private University and Higher Education

The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of higher education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. Over the years these institutions...

All Tiers of Education are Shrouded in Irregularities

A series of incidents have taken place in almost all the higher seats of learning in the country along with surfacing some different problems,...

The Initiative to Assess Higher Education of Bangladesh

With a view to making university education in Bangladesh a ‘brand’ for others to follow, the Education Quality Assurance Foundation (EQAF) was founded by...

What Does Jagannath University Incident Teach Us?

Jagannath University witnessed a sad incident that ensued from section 27/4 of the Jagannath University Act 2005. The Act says that the university will...

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...

Some Distinguished Features of Brac University

BRAC leaves no vital branch of social development untouched. Its intervention in the education scenario originates from pre-primary education to tertiary level. It launched...

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