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Teacher recruitment commission for pvt institutions coming

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Tuesday said the government is going to form a teacher recruitment commission, aiming to curb irregularities in recruitment to non-government educational institutions. NahidThe commission like the Public Service Commission (PSC) will appoint teachers as per demand to be placed by the educational institutions, he said. “The government has already taken initiatives and is working to form the teacher recruitment commission,” the minister told reporters while emerging from the DCs Conference held at the Cabinet...

Bangladesh ‘likes’ Harvard

It seems that Mark Zuckerberg really liked his alma mater. Either that or Dhaka, Bangladesh has a online obsession with Harvard. According to a recent report on university Facebook pages, Harvard and other universities like Yale and Oxford, may have had their number of Facebook likes artificially inflated. According to the report, most of Harvard’s 3.3 million likes come from Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka. Although we all know the far reach of Harvard’s name recognition, this seems a little suspicious. havardHowever, Harvard has helpfully ...

ROTA’s Ramadan Project to renovate Bangladesh school

Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) will renovate Bangladesh MHM School in Abu Hamour as part of its Eighth Annual Ramadan Project called ‘Sharing Blessings’, officials announced here Wednesday. rotaSpeaking at media conference held at Qatar Foundation today, ROTA Acting Executive Director Mohamed Al Naama said, “We are engaging ROTA volunteers during the holy month of Ramadan to share their blessings with people in need in our community.” ROTA’s Ramadan 2014 Project aims to provide opportunities for volunteering and raise awareness on its values and the conc...

Rural-urban disparity: Quality questioned despite high pass rate

Urban-rural disparity continues to persist in the education system, according to results of the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations published on Saturday, while the ministry keeps brushing aside such observations. Educationists and education campaigners said that the disparity continued as urban students could have coaching, private tuition and better guidance. Guardians in urban areas also spend more on students than guaridans in rural areas do. The combined pass rate in this year’s exams is 91.34 but the competence and the quality of education of successful students could be questioned, educationists said.

Record 91.34pc pass in SSC        

The results of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations have broken all records with 91.34 percent success rate, which is 2.31 percentage points higher than that of last year. As many as 1,42,276 students secured the highest Grade Point Average (GPA-5) this year, which was 91,226 in the previous year. In eight education boards, 92.67 percent passed this year while it was 89.72 percent in 2013. Total 93.94 percent students passed the exams under Dhaka board, 91.40 percent in Chittagong, 89.92 percent in Comilla, 96.34 in Rajshahi, 90.66 percent in Barisal, 89.23 percent in Sylhet, 93.26 percent in Dinajpur and 92.19 in Jessore.

BRACU holds seminar on Positive Parenting Skills  

To promote and convey the importance of Positive Parenting Skills, BRAC University Counseling Unit organized a seminar on “Positive Parenting Skills” with the parents of students of BRAC University on Saturday, (May 03, 2014) at the university auditorium. The objectives of the seminar were to help parents to develop, skills related to positive parenting, identify the characteristics of adolescent period, explain types of parenting, find out the characteristics of successful parents,  explore the relationship with children, and finally to understand self-ability in relation to parenting skills. The seminar covered contents like characteristics of adolescent period,  transitional crisis faced by adolescence, different types of parenting styles and characteristics’ of successful parents...