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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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The Global Knowledge Index: Bangladesh Gets the Lowest in South Asia

Bangladesh carries a heroic history to be independent and it has substantial reason to be proud of it. After getting the independence, Bangladesh had...

Educational Achievements of Bangladesh in the South Asian Context

Most of the south Asian countries possess some common characteristics. These countries are considered as less developed countries or developing countries. Almost all of...

The Global Knowledge Index: Bangladesh Gets the Lowest in South Asia

Bangladesh carries a heroic history to be independent and it has substantial reason to be proud of it. After getting the independence, Bangladesh had...

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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 in the internal examinations were allowed to sit for this examination. The successful examinees used to obtain monthly scholarship money, and these students were tagged as ‘scholars.  Similar things happened in the SSC and HSC examinations,...

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Reexamining the Scripts of Examination

In the SSC and HSC examinations, students fail to obtain their desired grades and so apply for rechecking their examinations with the hope of...

An Evaluation of BRAC Pre-primary Education Programme

MIRJA MOHAMMAD SHAHJAMAL and SAMIR RANJAN NATH wrote about BRAC Pre-primary Education ABSTRACT: BRAC operates over 20,000 pre-primary education centres in the areas of formal...

Does English Teaching Help Develop Skills of the Learners?

Are we sure that we could have made our primary, secondary and higher secondary level students stand on the right track to acquire English?...

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Subject-based Teacher in Secondary Schools

Secondary level education is the second important tier of education which experiences some anomalies and negligence from the authorities concerned for a long. Many...

Changes in Public Examination System

The assessment stands as one of the significant components of the teaching-learning situation. Students, teachers, materials, methods of teaching and evaluation are the main...

Prospect of Mastery Learning in Bangladesh

Md Ibrahim Khalil writes about Mastery Learning Introduction Mastery Learning is the most appropriate approach to education for Bangladesh because it meets the most fundamental...

Education Beyond the Classroom

The education imparted only in the classroom may not help the learners to deal with complex problems which appear in the real life. When...

Bangladeshi People’s English Skills in the Global Standard

Education First, a Switzerland based organization, has been working in the field of language and culture for more than five decades. It runs its...

The Necessity of Lesson Plan

A lesson plan is a written statement or outline by a teacher that fulfills the following stages of a lesson. (i) What do you want...

Teachers’ Social Status

MD. JALAL UDDIN wrote about social status of the teachers As per govt. decision the directorate of secondary and higher secondary education has recently appointed...

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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...

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...

A Study on New Curriculum: Grade Seven Students’ Status in English

Bangladesh has experienced a new curriculum, mostly known as a ‘competency-based’ curriculum, since January 2023. The teachers who teach English say the curriculum and the textbooks based on the spirit of this curriculum have been designed quite differently from the previous ones. One of the most important changes is that students do not have or very little homework, which exacerbates...

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...

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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...

Honours and Masters in Non-Government Colleges

It is frequently heard that honours and masters in non-government colleges will be closed down. Our education minister says it on time and occasion...

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...

I Never Wanted to be an Educationist

Though I never wanted to become an educationist or a curriculum developer in my teenage years, I asked my teacher in 8th grade why...

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...

Certificate Business in Private Universities

A very recent report regarding the education of private universities was released in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on education ministry meeting which has baffled...

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