The DC Conference 2026, the first of its kind since the BNP government came to power after the 12 February National Election, is taking place in the capital. It therefore attaches great importance to the government’s direct contact with field-level officials who implement its plans and steps.
On the other hand, the DCs and Divisional Commissioners also need to share issues the country is currently facing, such as the outbreak of hums, the cry of the farmers in the haor areas, ongoing SSC examinations, the low quality of education, education without joyful situation, Quami madrasa education and its equivalency to...
I often find myself criticising governments worldwide for failing to create opportunities for poor people, especially in the education sector. We certainly should be...
All forms of educational institutions have seen closure due to the corona pandemic for about fifteen months. At the primary and secondary level, the...
Continuous syllabus and assessment changes, as well as experiments on young children, make them guinea pigs. The authorities continue doing so, ignoring the children’s physical and mental pains. It has been learned that the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has directed the NCTB to revise the assessment system and distribution of marks.
Do they really have the right to...
It is admirable that the enrolment rate is rising along with gender parity in the primary schools of Bangladesh. Moreover, public expenditure for education...
MD. MUSFIKUR RAHMAN wrote on National Education Policy
Of late, the present government has steered the process of finalizing the National education policy - 2009....
PBL: Learning From the dawn of civilization
The advent of new ideas in society bares the potential of being scrutinized by humanity. Education reform is...
The development of several types of instructional materials is one of the major steps of each curriculum planning and development procedure. Though the textbook...
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...
Continuous syllabus and assessment changes, as well as experiments on young children, make them guinea pigs. The authorities continue doing so, ignoring the children’s...
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...
The national scene of education in terms of passes percentage in the secondary and higher secondary levels show a rising trend every year. But quality still remains a question. Maybe, the quality also is increasing but not up to the mark. This year the pass percentage of HSC has improved from last year’s 75.08 to 78.67. In 2010 this...
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 true sense of the term, the teaching-learning scenario, receiving and giving education evaporated many years back from our classes, educational institutions, and society, with some exceptions occurring in some institutions like missionary and privately run...
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...
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...
Mahbub Alam Prodip writes about Bangladeshi University Ranking
The ‘Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)’, ‘Times Higher Education (THE)’, ‘The Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)’ and ‘The...
Today’s universities is featured and marked by teachers’ negligible or not at all involved in research and more involvement in teacher politics. Involvement in...
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...
The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of higher education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. Over the years these institutions...
The DC Conference 2026, the first of its kind since the BNP government came to power after the 12 February National Election, is taking place in the capital. It therefore attaches great importance to the government’s direct...
Whenever we see English questions, whether in public examinations, BCS, or any recruitment test, let alone the internal examinations of educational institutions, we can...
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...
A new government was formed on 17 February under the able leadership of Tarique Rahman, following the thirteenth national election, in which the BNP...
The DC Conference 2026, the first of its kind since the BNP government came to power after the 12 February National Election, is taking place in the capital. It therefore attaches great importance to the government’s direct contact with...
