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Pre-service training: Why a new project for teachers?

Several newspapers have reported that the government has taken a new initiative to employ teachers at the secondary level, providing them with teacher training before joining the job through a special project named the ‘Professionalization for Enhanced Learning Project’. Currently, teachers usually receive in-service training, which significantly disrupts learning, as most of our institutions experience teacher shortages. Ensuring pre-service training would offer several benefits. First, teachers will be familiar with the pedagogy and strategies for working with young learners, as well as master the subject and teach it to students. Newspaper reports have highlighted this as a new government initiative, but...

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Pre-service training: Why a new project for teachers?

Several newspapers have reported that the government has taken a new initiative to employ teachers at the secondary level, providing them with teacher training...

The hierarchy of educational needs: Rethinking Bangladesh’s education reform priorities

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Existing Teaching-Learning Situation and Communication Skills of Our Learners

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What is in Store for Out-of-School Children?

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Public vs. Private Education in Developing Countries

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The Rationale behind the Strike of Government Primary School Teachers

No sooner had eighty thousand teachers of twenty thousand registered non-government primary schools left the street than the government primary school teachers occupied the street. Thanks to the leaders of primary school teachers for selecting a very technical and strategic time to press home their demands. If the present regime gets back to power they will forget the demands...

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The Guest Teacher: The Interesting Character for Building Dreams of the Young Learners

The classroom in primary and secondary schools in Bangladesh is compact and trodden with so many rules of discipline. Learners are busy with reading...

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The Importance and Challenges of Audio Materials for Language Education

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A timely editorial has appeared in a leading English daily reflecting the problems or battle for admission into schools in the city of Dhaka....

Goal of Education is to Attain Knowledge

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The Role of Technical and Vocational Education in the National Development of Bangladesh

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Quality Education Calls for Quality Decision

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MCQ to be Banned Gradually

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Higher Secondary Certificate Results Have Shown Some Hidden Crisis in Education

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Some Insides of This Year’s HSC Result

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Subject-based Teacher in Secondary Schools

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Senior Teacher Position Created with First-class Officer Status

The government secondary schools will see Senior Teacher position with the status of first-class gazetted officer that must be a welcome move. The number of government secondary schools had been only 317 for many years in a country of sixteen crore people that expresses stately importance towards this tier of education.  However, the non-government teacher associations have been struggling...

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How far JU Teachers’ demonstration justified?

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Student Attendance System

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Honours and Masters in Non-Government Colleges

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For higher education, fifty thousand seats lie against about six and a half lac students. Moreover, another one lac student may be added to...

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Pre-service training: Why a new project for teachers?

Several newspapers have reported that the government has taken a new initiative to employ teachers at the secondary level, providing them with teacher training before joining the job through a special project named the ‘Professionalization for Enhanced Learning Project’. Currently,...