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.
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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...
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Research Team: Samir Ranjan Nath, Md. Mahbubul Kabir, Kazi Saleh Ahmed, Goutam Roy, Awlad Hossain, S. M. Nurul Alam, Fazlul Karim Chowdhury, Amina Mahbub wrote about Low performance in education
Reviewers: Manzoor Ahmed, Kazi Fazlur Rahman, Jowshan Ara Rahman, Roushan Jahan, Ahmed Al- Kabir
Editors: A. M. R. Chowdhury, Rasheda K. Choudhury
Overview
A. Background
Bangladesh has made progress in various arena of socio-economic...
Teleinformatics technology favors a system of distance education that can no longer be simply an addition to traditional education systems, instead it must become...
GOUTAM ROY, NOTAN CHANDRA DUTTA and SAMIR RANJAN NATH wrote about differential performance in BRAC Schools
Abstract: Differential learning achievement of the graduates of three...
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Introduction
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As a global language, the position of English now stands supreme. How to communicate more effectively and using less effort among the individuals, institutions...
Abstract: The education and GDP indices are two components to determine the human development index set by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). There...
The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of higher education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. Over the years these institutions...
Ranking higher educational institutions such as universities is a crucial task. It entails one’s thinking on how to rank the universities. What should be...
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 or say, it raises questions about the acceptability of public exam results.
I have witnessed the shams and scams in public examination results since 1991, when I first became an examiner at the Dhaka Education Board....
Now it is known to us that from the year 2023, new textbooks for grades six and seven have been developed in the light of the new curriculum, which is going to be implemented in January. The role of teachers will be of serious importance, and the assessment will see fifty per cent in the form of formative and...
Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields without giving a second thought to whether those fields really need the changes the government is planning, ignoring the long-standing, must-be-solved problems of those areas.
That is why the exceptional thoughts sometimes appear as absurd. Some...
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...
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...
Even during the closure of corona two public universities namely Barishal and Jahangirnagar witness a very turbulent situation. On 16 February an altercation took...
The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of higher education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. Over the years these institutions...
As a regular reader of English newspapers, I have gone through the lengthy thought-provoking and valuable writing of an unknown assistant professor of a...
The students enrolled in higher educational institutions with the hope of embracing a brighter future and achieving some noble objectives have to face the...
Khaliduzzaman Alin discusses the evaluation techniques towards uniformity of PhD
The world is advancing so fast and everything is going to be quantified. For example,...
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...
In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...
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...
Is storytelling a powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar? Teaching English using isolated grammar has become an established practice in our English teaching...
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...
Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields...
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...
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...
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...
