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...
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...
NAZMUL AHSAN MIRAZ wrote about Gender Perspective in the Education Policy
This write up is developed on the document developed by Steps Towards Development to...
MOHAMMAD TAREQUE RAHMAN wrote about Voice of the Poor
Introduction
We have come to such a time while the importance of quality education is entirely recognized....
Introduction
Teaching is one of the fundamental elements in the process of formal education. Effective teaching is often a requirement of the achievement of the educational goals. For this reason educators put lot of concentration on understanding the proper method of teaching. Many philosophers sketched the image of an ideal teacher from their self perspectives.
But teachers cannot always be as...
The assessment stands as an integral part of the teaching-learning process, and we assess our learners directly, indirectly, in the classroom, outside the classroom,...
The current global perspective, artificial intelligence, the fourth industrial revolution and the very recent Corona pandemic remind us of changing our education curriculum to...
Milestone School and College experienced quite an unexpected and unfathomable tragic incident, the first of its kind in Bangladesh. However, our response to that...
A number of international donors and partners for developments have recently put a special emphasis on helping Bangladesh government in order to improve its...
It may not be unknown to most teachers that a safe, clean, comfortable and attractive centre can stimulate learning and help build classroom community....
Language teaching needs five important components such as students, teachers, materials, teaching methods and evaluation. Using materials mostly indicating textbooks gets third importance in...
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...
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...
SSC examination on the short syllabus is going to start on 14 November and end on 23 November. Collecting a certificate by sitting practically for examination retains much significance and pure joy, which our students missed due to Corona for the last two years. What's about the dropped out students?
Evaluation is an important part of the teaching-learning process. However,...
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...
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...
The students enrolled in higher educational institutions with the hope of embracing a brighter future and achieving some noble objectives have to face the...
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...
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...
Public universities are gripped with anomalies and saddest incidents imprinting a slur on the highest seats of learning in the country and exercising a...
The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of higher education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. Over the years these institutions...
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...
