A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration from Abraham Maslow’s famous “Hierarchy of Needs” theory, he attempted to reinterpret Bangladesh’s education system through a similar layered framework of needs. His post was not presented as a formal academic model or a research-based theory. Yet, as I read through it, I found myself deeply struck by its simplicity, clarity, and uncomfortable truth.
Sometimes the most powerful ideas are not those emerging...
In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...
When 56,000 scripts of a public examination show changed marks and grades, it undeniably reveals serious scams in our evaluation system. Whatever we do...
Most of the south Asian countries possess some common characteristics. These countries are considered as less developed countries or developing countries. Almost all of...
The continuous demeaning situation of education did not see the way to recruit deserving and real qualified teachers as teachers were employed in educational...
KAZI SAMEEO SHEESH, MD. MOAZZEM HOSSAIN and MOHAMMAD TAREQUE RAHMAN wrote about Language and Numeric Foundation
Abstract: The paper highlights how the government primary schools...
There was a time when primary scholarship was conducted after completing the annual examination of class five. Usually, the students who occupied top positions in the internal examinations were allowed to sit for this examination. The successful examinees used to obtain monthly scholarship money, and these students were tagged as ‘scholars.
Similar things happened in the SSC and HSC examinations,...
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...
The educational arena of the country is currently experiencing the development and implementation process of a new curriculum by National Curriculum and Textbook Board...
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.
The teaching-learning scenario of English in Bangladesh has assumed a new beginning. The Grammar-translation method had been practised for a long time in the...
Some important suggestions were made by prominent educationists of the country in a meeting for ‘developing the quality of education in the country ‘which...
Recently, a new slogan for the fourth industrial revolution got significant to the newspaper, writings and civil society discussions, like a talk show and...
Dogme ELT is a communicative approach to language teaching that encourages teaching without published textbooks and emphasises conversational communication among learners and teachers.
It is...
With a view to improving the quality of secondary education in Bangladesh, the government has taken different initiatives. Providing training to the teachers is one of the significant mechanisms aiming to develop their creativity and innovation. BRAC is supplementing the government’s efforts in these areas. It’s a matter of great pleasure for all of us that secondary level education...
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...
The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations were published three weeks after the government's initial announcement that they would be made public. This late publication of results poses a pertinent question in the minds of around 19 lakh examinees and all others concerned.
We guess that the new government wanted to evaluate the scripts of the...
Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields without giving a second thought to whether those fields really need the changes the government is planning, ignoring the long-standing, must-be-solved problems of those areas.
That is why the exceptional thoughts sometimes appear as absurd. Some...
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...
A very recent report regarding the education of private universities was released in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on education ministry meeting which has baffled...
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...
A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration...
In English language teaching, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is balancing the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Due to...
When 56,000 scripts of a public examination show changed marks and grades, it undeniably reveals serious scams in our evaluation system. Whatever we do...
Is storytelling a powerful tool to teach vocabulary and grammar? Teaching English using isolated grammar has become an established practice in our English teaching...
The results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations were published three weeks after the government's initial announcement that they would be...
Is it rational to establish 600 Model Schools and Colleges? Whenever any government assumes office, it wants to do something exceptional in established fields...
Our familiarity with Bloom’s Taxonomy may be greater than SOLO Taxonomy. Bloom’s Taxonomy organises learning objectives hierarchically from basic recall to creation, while SOLO...
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...
A few days ago, one of my Facebook friends and a junior from my university department, Dr Goutam Roy, a Lecturer at Charles Sturt University, shared a thoughtful reflection on educational reform on his wall. Drawing inspiration from Abraham...
