Popular

Latest

The hierarchy of educational needs: Rethinking Bangladesh’s education reform priorities

A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration from Abraham Maslow’s famous “Hierarchy of Needs” theory, he attempted to reinterpret Bangladesh’s education system through a similar layered framework of needs. His post was not presented as a formal academic model or a research-based theory. Yet, as I read through it, I found myself deeply struck by its simplicity, clarity, and uncomfortable truth. Sometimes the most powerful ideas are not those emerging...

Special Focus

The hierarchy of educational needs: Rethinking Bangladesh’s education reform priorities

A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt...

Using balanced skills for authentic and fruitful language teaching

In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...

Rechecking SSC exam scripts reveals serious scams in the evaluation system

When 56,000 scripts of a public examination show changed marks and grades, it undeniably reveals serious scams in our evaluation system. Whatever we do...

Education Policy

Creative System has Created a Quagmire

The Planning and Development Unit of DSHE has done a commendable job for the nation in general and education in particular. It has conducted...

Gender Analysis of the Incumbent PRSP to Develop the Next 5-year Plan: Education Sector

NAZMUL AHSAN MIRAZ writes on PRSP It is well recognized that education is one of the key elements for building the knowledge base of the...

Education and Human Resource Development

MOHAMMAD KOWSAR BHUIYAN wrote about Human Resource Development In this present world, human being is considered as a national asset like the other assets. Human...

Primary Education

Observance of National Primary Education Week 2014 and Some Relevant Issues

National Primary Education Week 2014 was observed in the country which started from March 09 and it was inaugurated by Prime Minister at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. She made several important announcements in her inaugural speech. One was the upgrading of the status of government primary head teachers from grade III to grade II which calls for appreciation from all...

Explore More

Co-operation between GO and NGOs needed

NGOs are dedicated to alleviating rural poverty as well as other areas of working like women empowerment and education NGOs emerged to supplement the...

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...

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...

Most Commented

Spotlight

Teacher’s Canning is Far Greater than Police Baton

The plight of the teachers in general and the non-government teachers in particular stands as a constant fact for long in Bangladesh but the...

Poor Performance of Private Teacher Training Colleges

A dark picture has revealed teacher training colleges when a survey was conducted by the ministry of education. The ministry of education found that...

Instructional Design

Instructional design is one of the most important things in the curriculum. The use and production of a textbook is related to an instructional...

BCS Education Cadre Officials’ ‘No Promotion, No Work’ Movement

The deprived education cadre officials have received no promotion during the one-and-a-half-year period of the interim government, coupled with their promotion deprivation ranging from...

World Literacy Day and the Promise of Bangladesh

International Literacy Day has been observed over the last forty years. This year the literacy day is dedicated to “literacy for the 21st century”...

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...

The Brain Development and Children’s Education

Over the past decade there has been renewed interest in facilitating Brain development and Education. Brain development emphasizes the importance of early experiences on...

Secondary Education

Higher Secondary Certificate Results Have Shown Some Hidden Crisis in Education

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exam in Bangladesh is one of the most significant exams, which marks the end of a student’s secondary education, paving the way for higher studies. This year, the Higher Secondary Certificate exams ran from June 26 to August 19, 2025. Exams took place across 11 education boards: nine general, one Madrasah and one Technical. A...

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....

Trainers’ Conference

With a view to improving the quality of secondary education in Bangladesh, the government has taken different initiatives. Providing training to the teachers is one of the significant mechanisms aiming to develop their creativity and innovation. BRAC is supplementing the government’s efforts in these areas. It’s a matter of great pleasure for all of us that secondary level education...

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...

Teaching and Learning

Higher Education

World University Ranking 2020: Where Do Bangladeshi Universities Stand?

Mahbub Alam Prodip writes about Bangladeshi University Ranking The ‘Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)’, ‘Times Higher Education (THE)’, ‘The Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)’ and ‘The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Most Viewed

Recommended for you

The hierarchy of educational needs: Rethinking Bangladesh’s education reform priorities

A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration...

The hierarchy of educational needs: Rethinking Bangladesh’s education reform priorities

A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt...

Using balanced skills for authentic and fruitful language teaching

In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...

Rechecking SSC exam scripts reveals serious scams in the evaluation system

When 56,000 scripts of a public examination show changed marks and grades, it undeniably reveals serious scams in our evaluation system. Whatever we do...

Storytelling: The most powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar

Is storytelling a powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar? Teaching English using isolated grammar has become an established practice in our English teaching...

SSC results reveal an unexpected reality serving as a wake-up call

The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations were published three weeks after the government's initial announcement that they would be...

What is the rationale behind establishing 600 Model Schools and Colleges?

Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields...

SOLO Taxonomy cultivates the culture of lifelong learning

Our familiarity with Bloom’s Taxonomy may be greater than SOLO Taxonomy. Bloom’s Taxonomy organises learning objectives hierarchically from basic recall to creation, while SOLO...

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 hierarchy of educational needs: Rethinking Bangladesh’s education reform priorities

A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration from Abraham...