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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

The DC Conference 2026, the first of its kind since the BNP government came to power after the 12 February National Election, is taking...

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The country's SSC and equivalent public examinations will begin on 21 April, the first of its kind since the new government assumed office. The...

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Student Politics in Bangladesh: An Impact on Quality Assurance in Education and National Development

Abstract: Student politics is one of ignored areas in international scholarly debate. In the late 1960’s to early 70’s, some authors made some contributions...

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...

Women Education, Empowerment and Poverty Eradication

Poverty eradication and holistic development of a country, though different in dimensions, these two are interrelated in a sense. Poverty eradication is one of...

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Quality Primary Education is in shambles

Over 60 years ago, the United Nations produced a noble document—the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 26 of the Declaration addresses education. The document contains commitments to education for all. Education, particularly quality primary education, is the right of every citizen. That every citizen is obliged to enroll in primary education and the government should try for this...

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School Opening: Can We Think of Region-wise Opening?

The government put a declaration of school opening on 30 March (2021) and universities on 24 May following the lower infection rate (less than...

Kindergartens must be Treated as an Aid for Socialization

Kindergartens occupy a significant position in the field of our pre-primary and primary education but in terms of physical facilities, these schools offer a...

Integrating Grammar and Writing

Grammar instruction holds an important place in foreign language learning. It is the rules of a language. Grammar is a system of meaningful structures...

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Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Sector in Bangladesh: Challenges and Prospects

M H TANSEN and RUBAYA MONZUR Introduction Over the last few decades, Bangladesh has made tremendous progress in primary school enrolment. However, nearly 50% of primary...

The responsibility of the School Management Committee and Parents

This article is going to discuss the role of community monitoring and its relation to the School Management Committee (SMC) and parents. Beliefs and Context Think...

The Role of a Teacher in a Conversation Class

Conversation pertains to learning English practically as it is the second most important way of human communication. So, a teacher must arrange a conversation...

Changes in Public Examination System

The assessment stands as one of the significant components of the teaching-learning situation. Students, teachers, materials, methods of teaching and evaluation are the main...

Virtual Classroom and Distance Learning: Bangladesh Perspective – 1

Universities are faced with the difficult problem of simultaneously keeping pace with the increased number of students and the increased extent of knowledge that...

NCTB’s Repeated Failure to Provide Books to the Students Timely!

December is the month when students assess their academic progress and prepare for stepping into the next higher class. The new books for the...

Coronavirus Pandemic Contributes to Reshape the Education of Bangladesh

In response to the decisions made by the state to continue the academic activities of the learners particularly the pre-primary, primary and secondary level...

Secondary Education

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,...

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...

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...

The Thought of Increasing Pass Rate Overshadows Quality

The results of the Secondary School Certificate examination came out with the message of a significantly high pass rate and higher grades. And this has become a common picture for the last six years which definitely make us elated as it shows that we are rightly keeping pace with the global jump. Is it the case actually, if we...

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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...

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...

The Initiative to Assess Higher Education of Bangladesh

With a view to making university education in Bangladesh a ‘brand’ for others to follow, the Education Quality Assurance Foundation (EQAF) was founded by...

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...

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...

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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