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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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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...
Primary Scholarship Exam – To Be or Not To Be!
There was a time when primary scholarship was conducted after completing the annual examination of class five. Usually, the students who occupied top positions...
Low-quality Books for Students Starting Next Year
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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Islamized School, Specialized Madrasa and New Paths to Islamic Education in Bangladesh
Introduction It is needless to say that Madrasa education is one of the oldest education systems in the Indian subcontinent. It is a “purely” native...
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...
Private Educational Institutions Experience Ugly Claws of Politics
The evil politics of the country has left no place untouched. It has stretched its ugly claws to non-government or private educational institutions gathering...
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Amader Pathshala Treads a Tough Road to Teach Poor Children
SADAT SAYEM writes on Amader Pathshala Sonia Akhter, a Class III student at Amader Pathshala, was colouring a drawing of rural vista in the cultural programme of the school on one Saturday. The daughter of a garment worker, Sonia often helps her mother in the household chores but she is regular in attending her classes from Uttar Kalshi in the Dhaka...
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What is Happening in the National University?
A series of irregularities of the National University of Bangladesh appeared in a Bengali daily (Jugantor April 19 to 23) drawing the attention of...
Teaching Language without Textbook
Language teaching needs five important components such as students, teachers, materials, teaching methods and evaluation. Using materials mostly indicating textbooks gets third importance in...
Virtual Classroom and Distance Learning: Bangladesh Perspective – 2
The process of virtual classroom and virtual learning can be easily described by a figure. With the below figure we try to show how...
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Gender-sensitive Education
Now it has crossed the boundary of doubt that investment in education for both boys and girls stands as one of the most important...
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...
Campus Police
A timely and thought-provoking article appeared in the Daily Star of its September 9 issue under the caption ‘Campus Police’ which received my attention...
Receiving TESOL President Award
Any kind of recognition to any innovative work works as a guiding force to go forward for any individual and organization. It’s an incentive...
Computer-Aided Learning can Develop Teaching-Learning Environment
Post Primary basic And Continuing Education (PACE) Programme of Brac is involved in many aspects of quality improvement of secondary education such as creating...
Inclusion of Children of the Sex Workers in the Mainstream Education
Raju Norul discusses the inclusion of children of sex workers Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, is trying to address...
Community Monitoring : How Can the Community Participate in Monitoring?
Curriculum, the widespread terminology After getting near about 100% of students in the schooling system in Bangladesh, the most uttered terminology is quality and secondary...
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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...
A Study on New Curriculum: Grade Seven Students’ Status in English
Bangladesh has experienced a new curriculum, mostly known as a ‘competency-based’ curriculum, since January 2023. The teachers who teach English say the curriculum and the textbooks based on the spirit of this curriculum have been designed quite differently from the previous ones. One of the most important changes is that students do not have or very little homework, which exacerbates...
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...
Ranking Secondary Schools
Ranking secondary schools has been done for the first time in Bangladesh by the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education at the behest of the Ministry of Education. The Planning Wing of DSHE has done this commendable job. Hats off the initiators. Schools will receive appreciation and admonition according to the ranking, they said. It has, no doubt, added...
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Certificate Business in Private Universities
A very recent report regarding the education of private universities was released in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on education ministry meeting which has baffled...
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...
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...
Dhaka University Must Retain Its Glory and Prove Centre of Excellence
Our glorious Dhaka University which produced many scholars, statesmen, diplomats, scientists, educationists and bureaucrats observed its 90th birth anniversary on July 01, 2011. It...
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...
Decision to Conduct Online Examinations in Public Universities Calls for Appreciation
All forms of educational institutions have seen closure due to the corona pandemic for about fifteen months. At the primary and secondary level, the...
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