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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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Education Policy: A Critical Review

Just after the assumption of power, the present government formed a commission to direct our education policy towards an effective, scientific and modern one...

Neo-Liberal Hegemony and The Education Policy of Bangladesh

The role of education is to build the nation and making linkages with knowledge and empowerment. It is true that education directly influences politics,...

Rate of Return of Education in Bangladesh: An investigation

Abstract: This article examines the contribution made by education in Bangladesh using primary data gained form a small scale of research. Secondary data also...

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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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Recruiting Teachers Without Written Test: A Suicidal Decision

The continuous demeaning situation of education did not see the way to recruit deserving and real qualified teachers as teachers were employed in educational...

An Evaluation of the Environmental Studies: Science Textbooks and Teachers’ Guides Used in BRAC Primary Schools

Arup Ratan Das writes about the evaluation of the environmental studies Abstract The objective of this study was to do an evaluation of science textbooks and...

E-Learning in Bangladesh: A New Era in Education

The term ‘e-Learning’ means ‘electronic Learning’ that encompasses all forms of technology enhanced learning. e-Learning is the use of technology to enable people to...

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Medium of Instruction in Education as Social, Cultural and Socioeconomic Inequality in Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary Level in Bangladesh

Introduction Education is the builder of a nation. This enables people to develop technologies, make economic development and enrich culture. This gives immense power to...

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,...

The Status of Communicative English Language

After the introduction of the Communicative English language at the secondary and Higher Secondary levels how much change in teaching and learning English has...

Role of Teachers in the 21st Century

Students’ behaviour and the future goals and success of life are shaped in the school and teachers are carriers of either positive or negative...

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...

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...

Only the Curriculum is Our Problem, and One Teacher, One Tab is the Good Solution?

Our experience shows that whenever a new government takes office, it takes on the task of changing the curriculum, which is a gigantic undertaking,...

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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....

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...

Dropped Out Students in the SSC are Mostly Girls

SSC examination on the short syllabus is going to start on 14 November and end on 23 November. Collecting a certificate by sitting practically for examination retains much significance and pure joy, which our students missed due to Corona for the last two years. What's about the dropped out students? Evaluation is an important part of the teaching-learning process. However,...

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...

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Government College Teachers Seek Justice

As a regular reader of English newspapers, I have gone through the lengthy thought-provoking and valuable writing of an unknown assistant professor of a...

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...

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...

An Evaluation Technique Towards Uniformity of PhD for Future World

Khaliduzzaman Alin discusses the evaluation techniques towards uniformity of PhD The world is advancing so fast and everything is going to be quantified. For example,...

What is Happening in the National University?

A series of irregularities of the National University of Bangladesh appeared in a Bengali daily (Jugantor  April 19 to 23) drawing the attention of...

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 ...

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Expected education budget 2026-27

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