Ministry sources said that the Education Ministry has made all preparations for the reopening of educational institutions from April 28. Bangladesh Meteorological Department has again issued 'heat alert' this morning. BMD sources said the heat alert may continue for the next three days. In this backdrop, the Education Ministry has revealed about its preparedness for […]
Students' demand for safe roads was ignored
The ethnic student group has expressed solidarity with the ongoing agitation by the students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). The student body expressed this solidarity at a press conference titled 'BUET crisis: Demand for violence-free educational environment and democratic student politics' at Dhaka Reporters Unity in Segunbagicha in the capital on Wednesday. […]
Answering another question, Satya Prasad Majumdar said that everyone including teachers, students and administration will have to make changes to maintain the political environment and how this can be done will have to be found out through discussion. The activities of the Engineering University Central Students Union (EUCSU) are closed. Therefore, they can do something […]
The High Court has postponed the decision on banning political organizations and activities in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Justice Mohammad Khasruzzaman and Justice KM Zahid passed the order while hearing a writ petition on Monday. The writ was filed challenging the validity of a circular banning all political organizations and activities. BUET […]
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the ruling Awami League, is organizing a protest rally at Central Shaheed Minar to demand the resumption of politics at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). The rally started at around 12 noon on Sunday. They are also protesting against the anti-constitutional, anti-fundamental rights and anti-education […]
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) students, who have been protesting against the mob lynching of BCL workers and leaders on the campus, have not gathered at the Shaheed Minar on the BUET campus today, Sunday. However, as per their announcement, they are boycotting all academic activities including the term final examinations to be […]
They announced that they would boycott all educational activities including term final examinations to be held on Sunday. Following a gathering of leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League, on the BUET campus on Wednesday midnight, BUET students demonstrated for the second day to press […]
The protesting students highlighted five points. They are: Permanent expulsion of Imtiaz Rabbi, a 21st batch student of the Department of Civil Engineering and member of the BCL Central Committee, and cancellation of his hostel seat, as he was the main organizer of a political gathering on the campus on Wednesday night in violation of […]
The draft of the BANBEIS report shows that there were a total of 9.2 million (92 lakh) students in secondary schools in the country in 2019, a year before the Corona pandemic started. By 2023, it has reduced to 8.1 million (81.66 lakh). All these students study in 18,968 schools in the country. Of the […]
Sexual abuse in university: the suffering of students, the responsibility of teachers
He said the university's syndicate decided to suspend Shahid Emon and remove the department chairman from his post. The female student had become vocal about harassment following the suicide of JNU student Fairuz Sadaf Abantika, who died soon after accusing her classmate and an assistant proctor of mentally abusing her. The student of Film and […]
Abantika, a student of JNU's law department for the academic year 2017-18, hanged herself at her Cumilla residence around 10:00 pm on Friday night after accusing her classmate Amman and assistant proctor Deen Islam in a Facebook post. Hours after Abantika's death by suicide, massive protests broke out in the university and continued till Saturday […]
University authorities were forced to fire the assistant proctor and suspend the student to quell the agitation. Also, the university administration has formed a four-member committee to investigate the incident. A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested the teacher and the student from Dhaka on Saturday night.
Citing an example of the government giving priority to education, the Education Minister said, the allocation for education in the financial budget for 2023-24 is Tk 880 billion (Tk 88,000 crore), which is more than Tk 200 billion (Tk 20,000 crore). The overall national budget for 2005–06 was 660 billion taka (66,000 crore taka). He […]