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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 themselves deeply and with rapt attention to acquire skills in any subject. They must be genuinely interested in learning it, which should be guided by internal motivation. A teacher must understand the subject’s ins and outs and possible related matters to satisfy their queries and make it more suitable and palatable to the students. How students respond to the subject, how they are taking it, why they do not react as expected, where the weakness is, and...

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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...

SDG 4 goal: Are we on the right track to achieve this?

One hundred ninety-three member states of the UN unanimously adopted the SDGs in 2015, and by 2030, the targeted goals are to be fulfilled....

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...

Education Policy

Playing Different Roles by Teacher Associations

Under the umbrella of various teacher associations, teachers get together and press home their demands or extract some benefits from the authorities concerned. Teachers’...

Co-operation between GO and NGOs needed

NGOs are dedicated to alleviating rural poverty as well as other areas of working like women empowerment and education NGOs emerged to supplement the...

Co-operation between GO and NGOs needed

NGOs are dedicated to alleviating rural poverty as well as other areas of working like women empowerment and education NGOs emerged to supplement the...

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Government Primary Schools in Dhaka

My wife was asking me to find government primary schools adjacent to our home (Rampura) to get the boy who works as a domestic helper of our house enrolled to receive education comparatively at a cheap rate. I failed to give her the exact information which finally led her to get the boy enrolled in an NGO run school...

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Quality Education Calls for Quality Decision

The Education Ministry on Friday issued an order to the relevant authorities to give salaries from the state exchequer to the teachers and employees...

The Global Knowledge Index: Bangladesh Gets the Lowest in South Asia

Bangladesh carries a heroic history to be independent and it has substantial reason to be proud of it. After getting the independence, Bangladesh had...

No Admission Test for Kids

“When a child reaches the age-appropriate for enrolling in class-I, he or she should have to be admitted, and there's no need to sit...

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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...

What Define Good Social Research?

Introduction The question of what defines good research is a great deal of attention, but too often it is conceived principally as a methodological question...

MDG and Education: Bangladesh Perspective

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...

Virtual Classroom and Distance Learning: Bangladesh Perspective – 3

The steps for virtual classroom and distance learning are discussed here. Step Five: Prepare and distribute contents This step focusing on the below mentioned questions....

Importance of Workplace Learning for Skill Development

Workplace learning is defined as a learning or training undertaken in the workplace, usually on the job, including on-the-job training under normal operational conditions,...

10 Benefits of Play in Early Childhood Development

Can you think about a child who does not want to play in early childhood? If the answer is yes, it is astonishing as...

Private Educational Institutions Experience Ugly Claws of Politics

The evil politics of the country has left no place untouched. It has stretched its ugly claws to non-government or private educational institutions gathering...

Secondary Education

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...

A Study on New Curriculum: Grade Seven Students’ Status in English

Bangladesh has experienced a new curriculum, mostly known as a ‘competency-based’ curriculum, since January 2023. The teachers who teach English say the curriculum and the textbooks based on the spirit of this curriculum have been designed quite differently from the previous ones. One of the most important changes is that students do not have or very little homework, which exacerbates...

HSC Result and Our Politics

The results of the Higher Secondary Examination or HSC result help students determine the future course of study and aim of life. Hence, it attaches much importance. This year 74.30 per cent of students passed the HSC examinations against 78.67 per cent of the previous year. Besides the pass rate, the results also showed a decline in the number...

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...

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Higher Education

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...

Quality Assurance at the Affiliated Institutions of Higher Education of the National University of Bangladesh

Abstract: Research for this paper, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, has been carried out on quality assurance by  questionnaire, interview and observation ...

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...

Is New Admission System in MBBS and BDS Bliss or Bane?

The hasty decision of the ministry of health regarding the admission test for admission seekers to MBBS and BDS course has sparked protest across...

Student Attendance System

GAZI MUSAYAB, FAHMED BIN NEWAZ, KAZI WASIM UZZAMAN and RENESA RAHMAN wrote about Attendance System Introduction Attendance Management System is a database system that has been...

Research and Our Universities

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...

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