Experts and officials have stressed increasing public expenditure on higher education institutions so that the number of seats they offer can accommodate the number of students passing the HSC examinations with a good GPA score.
Their recommendation came in light of the fact that a good number of higher education aspirants are not being able to pass the admission tests in reputed universities despite securing a good GPA score.
They said the number of seats offered by the country’s top universities of...
Prof Muhammad Mahboob Ali, PhD
Bangladesh is gradually progressing in higher education. Let me here quote Confucius: “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” For last five and eight months , lot of initiatives have been taken by the Government of Bangladesh .The most pertaining questions are contribution of higher education in last five and eight months in the country and whether rise of golden GPA 5 in SSC and HSC level creates any sort of debacle in the education sector? In search of these research questions the study has been taken by the center of Break through thinking in Bangladesh. An opinion pool has been conducted by the Center for Breakthrough thin...
A student from the Bangladesh School Muscat has set a new record in the A level examinations.
Eighteen-year-old Usamah Zaman bagged 4 A* grades which is a phenomenal performance. He scored A* in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.
Usamah scored full marks in 8 units of the GCE examinations. In the IAL examinations he scored full marks in 8 units.
A delighted Director of Education Affairs of the Institution, Major Nasiruddin Ahmed (Retd), said, “He secured 100 per cent in 1 unit of C...
Statistics of global monitoring reports show that, nearly two third of the world population stays well below the minimum literacy parameters drawn by UN. South Asian, West Asian and African populations are noted for remaining at lowest graphs of literacy. Mali, Niger and Barkina Faso are reported for their literacy rate being lowest in the world.
“Literacy skills develop from a basic to advanced level throughout life are part of broader competencies required for critical thinking, the sense of responsibility, participatory governance, sustainable consumption and lifestyles, ecological behaviours, biodiversity protection, poverty reduction, and disaster risk reduction….”, maintains the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, in elaborating the multi-facades of...
Bangladesh authorities suspended the head teacher of a girls' primary school Thursday after she caned a group of pupils so brutally that 15 of them needed hospital treatment, officials said.
The girls aged between 10 and 12 were all thrashed by the principal, Akter Jahan, as a punishment for ignoring her orders to clean up a class room on Wednesday, government administrator Kamrul Hasan said.
"She was suspended this morning after preliminary investigations into her conduct," Hasan told AFP.
"Fifteen girls were hospitalised. Five of ...
The results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations were published on Wednesday with a record 78.33 percent pass rate.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid handed over the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganobhaban at 10am.
A total of 70,602 students achieved the highest grade point average (GPA)-5 in this year’s HSC examinations.
Among the 70,602 GPA 5 achievers, 38,787 are boys with 77.86 percent pass rate and 31,815 girls with 78.86 percent pass rate, UNB reports.
Some 1,1...
They said the number of seats offered by the country’s top universities of...
