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When a group of people meet to generate new ideas around a specific area of interest, this situation can be called brainstorming which employs...
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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 last year (2024). The world knows that UNESCO was established on this International Literacy Day in 1966 to raise awareness about the essential role of literacy for individuals, communities, and societies, meaning the darkness of illiteracy must be dispelled by individual, social, state and global efforts. It also means observing the International Literacy Day at the behest or call of the state, only as a ceremonial event that does not reflect its true objective. It is...
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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...
Private Universities in Bangladesh: Navigation through Odds and Favours
The existence of private universities in Bangladesh is now a visual reality. Our memory dates back to 1992, when our country saw eleven public...
Milestone Tragedy and Our Response
Milestone School and College experienced quite an unexpected and unfathomable tragic incident, the first of its kind in Bangladesh. However, our response to that...
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Education for All: Accountable Policy
KHANDAKER LUTFUL KHALED and MOHAMMAD NORUL ALAM RAJU wrote about a component of Education for All Education has got the highest potential to secure social justice....
Focusing on Education: Importance and Necessity
Bangladesh is a densely populated country moving from an agricultural to an industry-based economy, which has been expedited within the recent decade. Is this...
Are We Experimenting with Our Education Too Much?
The co-chairman of the National Education Committee 2009 and renowned economist Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad opined that we are experimenting with our education too much.
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Government Primary Schools in Dhaka
My wife was asking me to find government primary schools adjacent to our home (Rampura) to get the boy who works as a domestic helper of our house enrolled to receive education comparatively at a cheap rate. I failed to give her the exact information which finally led her to get the boy enrolled in an NGO run school...
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REFLECT – Non-primer Based Approach of Adult Literacy
Generally, non-formal literacy programs are primer or text book dependent in Bangladesh. Primer is the book which used for adult literacy. Here the contents...
Telecentre and Education: It’s time to bring together
Computer Training changed Ms. Khaleda’s life. Khaleda Akhter is the fourth child of her parents. His father is a poor day labor and mother...
Virtual Classroom and Distance Learning: Bangladesh Perspective – 3
The steps for virtual classroom and distance learning are discussed here. Step Five: Prepare and distribute contents This step focusing on the below mentioned questions....
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Primary Education must be Most Attractive and Based on Strong Footing
Primary education must be very much attractive and interesting with giving the very basic facts of the subjects children can digest as the impression...
Dropped Out Students in the SSC are Mostly Girls
SSC examination on the short syllabus is going to start on 14 November and end on 23 November. Collecting a certificate by sitting practically...
NGO must be Apolitical
A non-governmental organisation (NGO) is formed by private persons or organisations with no participation or representation of the government. In the cases in which...
English For All?
I have gone through an article under the above caption “English For All” in the Daily Star of its 28 issues of March 2008...
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...
Using Performance Skills in the Classroom
In order to continue raising academic standards, we need to constantly examine and explore our methods of teaching. We need to observe other teachers’...
Recruiting Teachers Without Written Test: A Suicidal Decision
The continuous demeaning situation of education did not see the way to recruit deserving and real qualified teachers as teachers were employed in educational...
Secondary Education
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....
HSC Result and Our Politics
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...
Unitrack education system of Bangladesh
Education builds a nation. It is very important for Individual, Society and State. National development highly depends on Education. Education is the main component to execute the dream of the nation. Education has two general aspects, (1) Philosophical aspect & (2) Structural aspect.' Why we should learn?'-this question is related to the philosophy of education. If the philosophical position...
How Secondary English Teachers Can be Developed into Trainers
It is the new initiative of BRAC to develop trained English teachers into trainers. It is based on the theory of “The mother who gives birth to a child knows best the pain of childbirth”. This initiative has sparked hope and enthusiasm among the rural secondary English teachers. To speak the truth, we have discovered the hidden potentialities among...
Higher Education
Government College Teachers Seek Justice
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...
Some Distinguished Features of Brac University
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...
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...
Quality Assurance at the Affiliated Institutions of Higher Education of the National University of Bangladesh
Abstract: Research for this paper, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, has been carried out on quality assurance by questionnaire, interview and observation ...
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...
Expansion of Private Higher Education
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...
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