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When a group of people meet to generate new ideas around a specific area of interest, this situation can be called brainstorming which employs...
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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...
Primary Scholarship Exam – To Be or Not To Be!
There was a time when primary scholarship was conducted after completing the annual examination of class five. Usually, the students who occupied top positions...
Low-quality Books for Students Starting Next Year
If we look at NCTB from two decades ago until today, there is no room to appreciate it. Every year, heaps of allegations, complaints,...
Education Policy
The Necessity of Moral Education
We are now faced with such kind of students who is growing up with the Internet age, compared with students in the traditional sense;...
What is in Store for Out-of-School Children?
Bangladesh offers free and compulsory primary education to all school-aged children, and the government adopts various steps to make it successful as nobody would...
Our Dream in Next Twenty Years
The nation has just observed its 40th Victory Day anniversary and stepped into the 41st year of our achievement of freedom. Our greatest achievement...
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An Analysis of Primary Education : Some Initiatives to Make Curriculum Success
Bangladesh possesses importance in many aspects, particularly in the area of primary education, that convey the strength to the way forward. Having the development in economy and infrastructure or getting the significance in Geo-Political reality in the contemporary world, education stands in the background of all sorts of development and provides the intellectual resources. Education evolves as a movement On the...
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An Analysis of Primary Education : Some Initiatives to Make Curriculum Success
Bangladesh possesses importance in many aspects, particularly in the area of primary education, that convey the strength to the way forward. Having the development...
Teachers to Teach Subjects in New Curriculum
Now it is known to us that from the year 2023, new textbooks for grades six and seven have been developed in the light...
Gender Analysis of the Incumbent PRSP to Develop the Next 5-year Plan: Education Sector
NAZMUL AHSAN MIRAZ writes on PRSP It is well recognized that education is one of the key elements for building the knowledge base of the...
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What is Happening in National Curriculum and Textbook Board?
The educational arena of the country is currently experiencing the development and implementation process of a new curriculum by National Curriculum and Textbook Board...
Home Schooling: An Innovative Approach of BRAC Education
Intending to ensure students' engagement in learning amid the prevailing pandemic that has engulfed the entire globe, BRAC Education has resorted to an innovative...
Teaching Language without Textbook
Language teaching needs five important components such as students, teachers, materials, teaching methods and evaluation. Using materials mostly indicating textbooks gets third importance in...
Now Is the Time to Think of Quality Education and Drop out?
It looks strange that two contrasting phenomena exist side by side in our education system. One shows a competition to make the students pass...
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...
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....
Why English Teachers’ Association of Bangladesh (ETAB)
With the slogan 'Cooperate teachers, empower teachers', the English Teachers Association of Bangladesh (ETAB) has come into being in the educational arena in general...
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Secondary School Teachers Conduct Classes in Colleges
With a view to addressing the increasing crisis of admission into the intermediate level, the government turned ten government schools into colleges and this process was started in 2007 as a huge number of students passed the SSC examination that year. Firstly, Dhanmondi Government High School, Motijheel Government Boys’ High School and Sher-e-Banglanagar Boys’ High School introduced intermediate class....
Ranking Secondary Schools
Ranking secondary schools has been done for the first time in Bangladesh by the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education at the behest of the Ministry of Education. The Planning Wing of DSHE has done this commendable job. Hats off the initiators. Schools will receive appreciation and admonition according to the ranking, they said. It has, no doubt, added...
Trainers’ Conference
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...
Some Insides of This Year’s HSC Result
The national scene of education in terms of passes percentage in the secondary and higher secondary levels show a rising trend every year. But quality still remains a question. Maybe, the quality also is increasing but not up to the mark. This year the pass percentage of HSC has improved from last year’s 75.08 to 78.67. In 2010 this...
Higher Education
Girl Students’ Poor Accommodation in Public Universities
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...
Bangladeshi Vice-Chancellors Want the Status of MPs!
An article appeared in the daily Kalerkantho of September 04, 2011, produced by a Bangladesh professor in the USA which drew my attention. The...
Decision to Conduct Online Examinations in Public Universities Calls for Appreciation
All forms of educational institutions have seen closure due to the corona pandemic for about fifteen months. At the primary and secondary level, the...
Ranking Higher Educational Institutions
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...
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...
World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?
Mahbub Alam Prodip writes about Bangladeshi University Ranking The ‘Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)’, ‘Times Higher Education (THE)’, ‘The Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)’ and ‘The...
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No Business with Education!
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