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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...
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There was a time when primary scholarship was conducted after completing the annual examination of class five. Usually, the students who occupied top positions...
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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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I often find myself criticising governments worldwide for failing to create opportunities for poor people, especially in the education sector. We certainly should be...
National Education Policy-2009 (Final Draft): Some Questions to be Clarified before Finalizing It
MD. MUSFIKUR RAHMAN wrote on National Education Policy Of late, the present government has steered the process of finalizing the National education policy - 2009....
Poor Performance of Private Teacher Training Colleges
A dark picture has revealed teacher training colleges when a survey was conducted by the ministry of education. The ministry of education found that...
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The Rationale behind the Strike of Government Primary School Teachers
No sooner had eighty thousand teachers of twenty thousand registered non-government primary schools left the street than the government primary school teachers occupied the street. Thanks to the leaders of primary school teachers for selecting a very technical and strategic time to press home their demands. If the present regime gets back to power they will forget the demands...
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Playing Different Roles by Teacher Associations
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Gender Analysis of the Incumbent PRSP to Develop the Next 5-year Plan: Education Sector
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Primary Completion Examination 2012: Who Drop Out and Why?
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...
UGC Reveals Poor Performance of Public Universities
Recently the University Grants Commission or UGC has conducted a survey on our five public universities. It has revealed the findings which really tend...
Now Is the Time to Think of Quality Education and Drop out?
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Admission into Higher Educational Institutions
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Women Education, Empowerment and Poverty Eradication
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Unbelievable Education Facilities through A Bangladeshi Web Portal
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Receiving TESOL President Award
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Unitrack education system of Bangladesh
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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...
Senior Teacher Position Created with First-class Officer Status
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Admission into Higher Educational Institutions
For higher education, fifty thousand seats lie against about six and a half lac students. Moreover, another one lac student may be added to...
Bangladeshi Vice-Chancellors Want the Status of MPs!
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Sad Occurrences at Public Universities
Public universities are gripped with anomalies and saddest incidents imprinting a slur on the highest seats of learning in the country and exercising a...
Future of Business Studies in Private Varsities
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Girl Students’ Poor Accommodation in Public Universities
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Expansion of Private Higher Education
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