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No Business with Education!
In Chattogram, our Education Advisor recently said, “It will not take much time to change the country when education touches all. Education makes humans modest and gentle. A student who gets education from his family will never show pride; rather, he will be modest. So, there should not be any business with education. Education is a proper channel of becoming real human beings that all must remember.’’ I appreciate the nice words of our advisor, and side by side, I want to draw his kind attention to the fact that our education assumed a business shape many years back; it...
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No Business with Education!
In Chattogram, our Education Advisor recently said, “It will not take much time to change the country when education touches all. Education makes humans...
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If we look at NCTB from two decades ago until today, there is no room to appreciate it. Every year, heaps of allegations, complaints,...
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Disaster Resilient Education: An Undialogued Agenda
Over the years, Bangladesh has confronted the challenges of natural disasters and tried to mitigate the risks associated with different disasters. Due to severity...
The Education Reform: Learning from Vietnam Example
The ignition In a recent interview, Dr. Manzoor Ahmed, Professor Emeritus, BRAC University, interpreted the education status of some Asian countries which are much more...
An Analysis of Primary Education : Some Initiatives to Make Curriculum Success
Bangladesh possesses importance in many aspects, particularly in the area of primary education, that convey the strength to the way forward. Having the development...
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Competency-based Primary Education Curriculum
Introduction The competency-based primary education is a major initiative for ensuring the quality of outcome of the learners. It is one of the major educational endeavors in order to achieve the Education for All (EFA) and ensuring the quality of education to the all learners since this competency-based education is focused on the qualitative aspect of learning outcome of the...
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Medium of Instruction at the Different Levels of Education in Bangladesh: Social, Cultural and Economic Division, and Inequality
Sanjida Abedin Rafha discusses the medium of instruction at the different level of education in Bangladesh Education is one kind of state of mind that...
Open Book Examination: How and Why
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,...
No Admission Test for Kids
“When a child reaches the age-appropriate for enrolling in class-I, he or she should have to be admitted, and there's no need to sit...
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Amader Pathshala Treads a Tough Road to Teach Poor Children
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Honours and Masters in Non-Government Colleges
It is frequently heard that honours and masters in non-government colleges will be closed down. Our education minister says it on time and occasion...
Non-Formal Education, Economic Growth and Development in Bangladesh
Introduction Attacking poverty has become an international concern for placing in the paradigm of ‘education and learning for sustainable development’ in consideration of the reality...
Group Comparison for Significant Difference: Understanding Appropriate test for Your Research
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Use of ICT in Gender Equalization
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Observing ‘School’s Readiness’: An Anecdote from Nobodhara Pre-school
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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 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,...
English Teachers’ Classroom Practices in Rural Secondary Schools: An Exploration of the Effect of BRAC Training
RIFAT AFROZE, MD. MAHBUBUL KABIR AND ARIFA RAHMAN wrote about BRAC Training ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effect of the BRAC training programme for English language teachers of rural non-government secondary schools. It examined the change in the teachers in terms of their pedagogic skills, language skills development, knowledge about Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and their attitudes towards this new...
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 for education. Still many flows have been discerned in this sector which tends to threaten the smooth running of this field. Several alarming figures in the secondary level education of the country appeared in different...
Science Education Declines in the Age of Science
We are living in the age of science and computer. Till today we enjoy the most sophisticated scientific development. When and where its onward march stops are unknown to us. To cope with the situation we need to produce a procession of science graduates and a galaxy of experts in different branches of science. But we see a grim...
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Need Assessment of a Short Course on Educational Evaluation and Assessment
GOUTAM ROY and SAMIR RANJAN NATH wrote about the necessity a short course on Educational Evaluation and Assessment Abstract: The aim of this study was...
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...
Current Private University Scenario
The birth of the private university in Bangladesh has passed more than two decades. Now their existence is a visual reality with significantly successful...
Barishal and Jahngirnagar Universities see Volatile Situation
Even during the closure of corona two public universities namely Barishal and Jahangirnagar witness a very turbulent situation. On 16 February an altercation took...
All Tiers of Education are Shrouded in Irregularities
A series of incidents have taken place in almost all the higher seats of learning in the country along with surfacing some different problems,...
Is New Admission System in MBBS and BDS Bliss or Bane?
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