The University Grant Commission (UGC), the apex body to monitor the country’s higher education, has stressed formulating guidelines over how much time the public university teachers should be allowed to spend in their part-time engagement with private educational institutions.
The UGC in its annual report 2013 says some public university teachers engaged in part-time teaching in one or more private universities spend much more time there than in their own universities, reports UNB.
There is no specific guideline on how much time a public university teacher...
Two year 10 pupils from Wales have won this year’s Steve Sinnott award to be young ambassadors for the Send My Friend to School campaign, after wowing the judges with their dynamism, charisma and commitment.
George Watts and Emily Pemberton, from Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr in Cardiff, will travel to Bangladesh next month with the Global Campaign for Education UK, to learn first hand about barriers to education in a crucial year for the campaign. The Millennium Development Goa...
India and Bangladesh will sign an MoU within the next two months which will give them the right to conduct oceanic research in each other’s Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs).
National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Director Dr S W A Naqvi said the political atmosphere is just right to launch a major programme of this kind as he announced this.
“Many countries in this region do not have the infrastructure and human resources to carry out research on their own. So they have been looking at India to provide the lead. We are now launching major pro...
Home to 157 million people living in a land crisscrossed by the waters of the enormous Ganga-Brahmaputra delta, Bangladesh is the world’s most densely populated country. While 47 million people still live in poverty and are extremely vulnerable during frequent floods and cyclones, the country has registered remarkable successes between 1990 and 2010—reducing poverty by a third, achieving gender parity in primary and secondary education, and cutting its maternal mortality rate by 40 percent.
The World Bank Group has supported development in Bangladesh since 1972, including by financing its groundbreaking conditional cash transfer program that helped get millions of girls into school in the early 1990s, and contributing to the country’s stellar results in increasing female literacy. It...
It is generally understood that a country that aims to provide quality education to its young population needs an investment the size of 6.0-8.0 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) at the minimum. And that investment has to be sustained over years, and, when more demand is created at the higher levels of education, upwardly adjusted. A look at the countries which have ensured the highest quality education at every level and have developed their economies and attained prosperity as a result will tell us that they never compromised with their stand on education and gave the sector the highest priority in terms of public funding.
Education has always been the backbone for a nation and teachers are considered as our nation builders. Ever since mankind discovered light at the end of the tunnel, science has added enhancements to reach there. Through education, students gain knowledge, skills, and values to address the environmental and social challenges of the coming decades.
Teachers are main contributors of education as they pass on knowledge and values in every generation as they play crucial roles in developing and touching one’s life. Systems of schooling involve instit...
