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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...
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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,...
Education Policy
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,...
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
No sooner had eighty thousand teachers of twenty thousand registered non-government primary schools left the street than the government primary school teachers occupied the street. Thanks to the leaders of primary school teachers for selecting a very technical and strategic time to press home their demands. If the present regime gets back to power they will forget the demands...
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Vocational Training and Linkage with Income
A number of donors and partners for developments have recently put especial attention to help the Bangladesh government in order to improve its technical...
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...
School Opening: Can We Think of Region-wise Opening?
The government put a declaration of school opening on 30 March (2021) and universities on 24 May following the lower infection rate (less than...
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School Improvement in Bangladesh Context: Learning from BRAC Primary Schools – 2
In-school strategies for improvement Classroom: There is only one classroom for every BRAC school. Basically, the classroom itself is the school, and therefore school improvement...
Ranking Higher Educational Institutions
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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...
Education in Budget Speech 2012-13
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Student Politics in Bangladesh: An Impact on Quality Assurance in Education and National Development
Abstract: Student politics is one of ignored areas in international scholarly debate. In the late 1960’s to early 70’s, some authors made some contributions...
Child Protection Issues in Our Textbooks
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Early Childhood Experiences, Lifelong Health and Learning and Brain Development
This is obviously a good sign that early childhood development and early childhood education are gaining importance in Bangladesh in recent years. One year...
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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...
Necessary Skills for a Secondary School English Teacher
The secondary level poses to be the most important tier of the education sector as it builds the foundation of other tiers. English stands as the most important subject at this level, which remains actually untreated in Bangladesh. Recently it has started receiving attention from the relevant corners in different forms. Language experts say an English teacher must have...
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
Our glorious Dhaka University which produced many scholars, statesmen, diplomats, scientists, educationists and bureaucrats observed its 90th birth anniversary on July 01, 2011. It...
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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!
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