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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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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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The Education Reform: Learning from Vietnam Example
The ignition In a recent interview, Dr. Manzoor Ahmed, Professor Emeritus, BRAC University, interpreted the education status of some Asian countries which are much more...
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...
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...
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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 be left out-of-school. However, a still considerable number of children have been out-of-school because of dropout or have never been enrolled in school due to poverty that surfaces conflicting points between our plan and reality....
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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...
Competency-based Primary Education Curriculum
Introduction The competency-based primary education is a major initiative for ensuring the quality of outcome of the learners. It is one of the major educational...
Primary Education: The Post-Pandemic Challenges and Way Forward
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The Role of Technical and Vocational Education in the National Development of Bangladesh
Abstract Education is a basic human right and considered by many as a key tool for national development. However, this tenet has been challenged by...
Income Prospects of Vocational Education and Training
A number of international donors and partners for developments have recently put a special emphasis on helping Bangladesh government in order to improve its...
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...
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...
Concept of Literacy: Past-Present-Future
United Nations declared 2003-2012 as a United Nations Literacy Decade and the motto for the decade is “Literacy as Freedom”. The freedom to access...
Education Financing in Bangladesh: Challenge for Quality Education
Mohammad Norul Alam Raju and M Mizanur Rahman wrote about Education Financing in Bangladesh Whenever we think about the education sector of the country, we...
Role of Apprenticeship in Development
Apprenticeship process was introduced in Bangladesh in the 1850 through an act designed by the British Administration. Given the nature of the 1850's act,...
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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...
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...
Several Magics of SSC and Equivalent Examinations Remain Elusive
SSC and equivalent examinations started on 15 February, the written tests were completed on 12 March, and the practical examinations continued till 20 March, beginning from 13 March 2024. Today, 12 May, the results have come out, which means that in less than two months’ time, the results have appeared. Like in previous years, the Prime Minister actually inaugurated the...
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
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...
The Initiative to Assess Higher Education of Bangladesh
With a view to making university education in Bangladesh a ‘brand’ for others to follow, the Education Quality Assurance Foundation (EQAF) was founded by...
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 ...
How far JU Teachers’ demonstration justified?
Jahangir Nagar University, the only fully-fledged residential university stresses its campus on the beautiful lap of nature decorated with lakes, green foliage of trees...
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...
Writing a Statement of Purpose
HELALI MORTUZA BHUIYAN wrote about Statement of Purpose 1. Preface This article is all about writing a good Statement of Purpose or SOP. I am assuming...
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No Business with Education!
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