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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!

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Low-quality Books for Students Starting Next Year

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Education Policy

Neo-Liberal Hegemony and The Education Policy of Bangladesh

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What Students are Learning? Stop Staging the Theatre of Education

The COVID situation and the theatre of introducing a so-called 'competency-based' curriculum pushed the teaching and learning situation to the lowest rung. In the...

Education Policy must Give Importance to These Points

The present government is going to formulate a standard education policy as they said. Education is actually in shamble whatever complacency we show. You...

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The Rationale behind the Strike of Government Primary School Teachers

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Vocational Training and Linkage with Income

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Inclusive Education in Bangladesh: Trend or requirement?

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School Opening: Can We Think of Region-wise Opening?

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School Improvement in Bangladesh Context: Learning from BRAC Primary Schools – 2

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Education in Budget Speech 2012-13

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Student Politics in Bangladesh: An Impact on Quality Assurance in Education and National Development

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Child Protection Issues in Our Textbooks

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Early Childhood Experiences, Lifelong Health and Learning and Brain Development

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HSC Result and Our Politics

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Necessary Skills for a Secondary School English Teacher

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Ranking Secondary Schools

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What Students are Learning? Stop Staging the Theatre of Education

The COVID situation and the theatre of introducing a so-called 'competency-based' curriculum pushed the teaching and learning situation to the lowest rung. In the true sense of the term, the teaching-learning scenario, receiving and giving education evaporated many years back from our classes, educational institutions, and society, with some exceptions occurring in some institutions like missionary and privately run...

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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...

Expansion of Private Higher Education

According to UNESCO, the region provides higher education including private higher education to just 3.5 of the college age population, compared with 60 per...

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...

Dhaka University Must Retain Its Glory and Prove Centre of Excellence

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World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

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No Business with Education!

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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;...