Former education secretary Nazrul Islam Khan blamed the project director’s lack of experience and lack of action against those responsible for such a situation. This may be partially true. This is more likely to happen if the project director is appointed on the basis of seniority, not merit and experience. Apart from the Project Director, […]
The Bangladesh government has decided not to arrange annual examinations in schools this year. This decision was announced from an online press conference yesterday. The education minister has said, students will be promoted to the next level automatically. But a thirty-day short syllabus will be made for students. They have to complete four assignments in […]
Present global pandemic has paralyzed the education system. All educational institutes are closed. Some schools and private universities have tried to continue academic activities through online video conferencing. Bangladesh government has arranged classes through the state owned television which has terrestrial transmission facility. But many rural families don’t have any television so they are not […]
Like all other sectors, education sector is also going to suffer because of the present covid-19 pandemic. In a joint research report two non-government research organizations Power & Participation Research Center and BRAC Institute of Governance & Development has expressed concern about education crisis among poor, especially education for children from low income families. According […]
Nowadays students are writing and reading more Facebook status than books. It is affecting their linguistic skills. Usually teenagers use short form of words and spelling mistake is very common in Facebook arena. Today’s students don’t spend much time for reading books. Instead of that they are spending time on Facebook and Facebook like social […]
Three female students of Rajshahi New Government Degree College have beaten their male classmate for eve teasing. It was Thursday noon after the test examination of class twelve humanities group. Other students shot the incident with their mobile phone and shared that on social media. This 25 second video became viral which shows three female […]
Ragging or bullying has been a concern in Bangladeshi university and college dormitories. It’s not only slapping or rebuking. There are many cases of violence. In many cases students were hospitalized. Some students couldn’t complete their course because of the trauma. A university student in Dhaka was beaten to death in the beginning of the […]
Rahima Akhter alias Rahi Khushi was LLB student of Cox’s Bazar International University. Vice chancellor has informed media that university authority has suspended the girl’s studentship after report in the media claiming she is from Rohingya community. German international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle recently released a short video where the university girl was seen taking interviews […]
University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued a warning to students and guardians about admission to 30 Bangladeshi private universities. UGC is an autonomous body responsible for monitoring standards of higher education in Bangladesh. These private universities are: IBAIS University, America Bangladesh University, The University of Comilla, Southern University Bangladesh, World University, University of Development Alternative, […]
Bangladesh government has decided to affiliate all government colleges to nearest public universities. HSC courses of all colleges are controlled by respective education boards. But undergraduate and post graduate courses are controlled by National University, Gazipur. National University was established in 1992. Before the establishment of National University, all undergraduate and post graduate courses taught […]
HSC and other equivalent public examination result may be published in any day from 20th July to 22nd July. Dhaka Education Board chairman Mohammad Ziaul Haque who is also chairman of inter-education board coordination sub-committee, informed this to media yesterday. He said as per present guideline, the committee has proposed to publish HSC and equivalent […]
Admission of honors’ 1st year will be started from 1 October 2015 and class will be started from 1 December. The decision was taken at a meeting of admission committee. The meeting was presided over by Vice-Chancellor of the National University. It was decided in the meeting that National University will admit student without taking […]
The Supreme Court on behalf of the Human Rights Foundation’s lawyer Syed Kabir Mohidul sent a legal notice to The Daily Prothom Alo to stop publishing especial test preparation for PSC and JSC creative answers question and sample questions. The Daily Prothom Alo was asked to reply within 2 weeks. The Ministry of Education Secretary, […]
A new study challenges the idea that distraction is necessarily a problem while learning. Researchers at Brown University in the US have found that as long as our attention is as divided when we have to recall a motor skill as it was when we learned it, we will do just fine. Most learned motor […]
Budget allocation for higher education shrank over last five years affecting its quality and expansion as well as improvement of infrastructure and other facilities. Lower allocation for higher education has been negatively impacting research, recruitment of teachers, infrastructure, quality of education and professional skills, academics have said. Standard of education in public universities has declined […]