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Nationalisation of Education: BNP’s Stance and Promise  

A grand rally was held on 07 October 2025 at Shurawardy Uddayan on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, where teachers gathered with the demand of annihilating discrepancies lying in the education sector and barriers to quality of education, deciding retirement age 65, bringing Non-MPO institutions into MPO and MPO teachers and staff to be nationalised. Acting chairman of BNP Tarique Rahman said if they got the opportunity to run the state, they would do everything as per the government’s ability to ensure the teachers’ financial security. At the same time, they will form the ‘Education Reform Commission’, making technical...

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Nationalisation of Education: BNP’s Stance and Promise  

A grand rally was held on 07 October 2025 at Shurawardy Uddayan on the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, where teachers gathered with the...

Higher Secondary Certificate Results Have Shown Some Hidden Crisis in Education

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exam in Bangladesh is one of the most significant exams, which marks the end of a student’s secondary education,...

International Literacy Day: Should not We Redefine ‘Literacy’ Against the Current Global Scenario?

Following the usual calendar, International Literacy Day has appeared again before us to make us conscious and consider our progress since we observed it...

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How English Version School going on?

To keep pace with the fast-growing demand for English knowing people establishing English version school along with English medium has gained momentum in the...

Impact of World Bank’s Policies: Barriers for Community Development and Education for Social Justice

A Case Study on community development: “Ms. Setara Akter (17) of East Chorbata village of Subarnachar Upazila in Noakhali District was a student of...

Application of Innovative Technologies in Teaching-Learning Process: A Mission for Building Knowledge Based Society in Bangladesh

Abstract: Today’s world is shaped by availability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Because global economy is powered by knowledge and technology, fueled by...

Primary Education

Competency-based Primary Education Curriculum

Introduction The competency-based primary education is a major initiative for ensuring the quality of outcome of the learners. It is one of the major educational endeavors in order to achieve the Education for All (EFA) and ensuring the quality of education to the all learners since this competency-based education is focused on the qualitative aspect of learning outcome of the...

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Some Misconceptions about Communicative Language Teaching

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MCQ to be Banned Gradually

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Program for International Student Assessment – PISA

For gaining the 21st century skills students need to put emphasis on Mathematics, Science and English. These can be said as surviving skills as...

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...

How Secondary English Teachers Can be Developed into Trainers

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The Necessity of Lesson Plan

A lesson plan is a written statement or outline by a teacher that fulfills the following stages of a lesson. (i) What do you want...

Dropped Out Students in the SSC are Mostly Girls

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Translingualism: Languages Incorporating Differences

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Teachers to Teach Subjects in New Curriculum

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...

HSC Result and Our Politics

The results of the Higher Secondary Examination or HSC result help students determine the future course of study and aim of life. Hence, it attaches much importance. This year 74.30 per cent of students passed the HSC examinations against 78.67 per cent of the previous year. Besides the pass rate, the results also showed a decline in the number...

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...

English Teachers’ Classroom Practices in Rural Secondary Schools: An Exploration of the Effect of BRAC Training

RIFAT AFROZE, MD. MAHBUBUL KABIR AND ARIFA RAHMAN wrote about BRAC Training ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effect of the BRAC training programme for English language teachers of rural non-government secondary schools. It examined the change in the teachers in terms of their pedagogic skills, language skills development, knowledge about Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and their attitudes towards this new...

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Private Universities in Bangladesh: Navigation through Odds and Favours

The existence of private universities in Bangladesh is now a visual reality. Our memory dates back to 1992, when our country saw eleven public...

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...

Writing a Statement of Purpose

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Private University and Higher Education

The private university now occupies a significant space in the sphere of higher education in Bangladesh upholding a reality. Over the years these institutions...

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...

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