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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

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National Education Policy-2009 (Final Draft): Some Questions to be Clarified before Finalizing It

MD. MUSFIKUR RAHMAN wrote on National Education Policy Of late, the present government has steered the process of finalizing the National education policy - 2009....

Education and Human Resource Development

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Disaster Resilient Education: An Undialogued Agenda

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Battle for Admission into Schools

A timely editorial has appeared in a leading English daily reflecting the problems or battle for admission into schools in the city of Dhaka. As I work in this line, let me say something more about the issue. Dhaka city experiences a tough battle for admission during this season. The metropolitan city witnesses the influx of population from rural...

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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...

International Literacy Day: Should not We Redefine ‘Literacy’ Against the Current Global Scenario?

Following the usual calendar, International Literacy Day has appeared again before us to make us conscious and consider our progress since we observed it...

A Proper Plan Needed in Place for Upcoming Technical, Vocational, Education Projects

Bangladesh needs to plan its upcoming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programme to get the best out of it for the people....

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Impact of World Bank’s Policies: Barriers for Community Development and Education for Social Justice

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I often find myself criticising governments worldwide for failing to create opportunities for poor people, especially in the education sector. We certainly should be...

SDG 4 goal: Are we on the right track to achieve this?

One hundred ninety-three member states of the UN unanimously adopted the SDGs in 2015, and by 2030, the targeted goals are to be fulfilled....

Medium of Instruction in Education as Social, Cultural and Socioeconomic Inequality in Primary, Secondary and Higher Secondary Level in Bangladesh

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Education Financing in Bangladesh: Challenge for Quality Education

Mohammad Norul Alam Raju and M Mizanur Rahman wrote about Education Financing in Bangladesh Whenever we think about the education sector of the country, we...

Problems and Prospects of EFA in Bangladesh

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MCQ to be Banned Gradually

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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...

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 call for monetary involvement whereas many don’t need money but can bring some positive changes in this sector. The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has recently sent a proposal to the Ministry of...

Teachers to Teach Subjects in New Curriculum

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...

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....

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Ranking Higher Educational 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...

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...

Future of Business Studies in Private Varsities

There are two reasons for making business studies or business administration course market-driven. One is the success of the Institute of Business Administration (IBA);...

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...

Writing a Statement of Purpose

HELALI MORTUZA BHUIYAN wrote about Statement of Purpose 1. Preface This article is all about writing a good Statement of Purpose or SOP. I am assuming...

Student Attendance System

GAZI MUSAYAB, FAHMED BIN NEWAZ, KAZI WASIM UZZAMAN and RENESA RAHMAN wrote about Attendance System Introduction Attendance Management System is a database system that has been...

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