India is finding it difficult to implement sex education in public schools. The Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan set off a firestorm over the future of sex education. The controversy started in June when the Times of India publicised his vision, in which he wrote that “so-called sex education” should be banned.
The ensuing public outcry sent Vardhan scrambling to clarify his words, reports Khabar South Asia.
“I never said sex education should be banned. The present format is full of vulgarisms which have to go,” Vardhan said in a statement soon after. “I want a sex education curriculum which instils values of gender equity in young minds. The existing system is inadequate and the search for the right pedagogy will continue.”
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The results of this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be published on August 13
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid told this to reporters after a meeting at the Secretariat on Thursday.
The Education Minister will announce the results at a press conference at his ministry after handing over the copy of the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
This year a total of 11,41,374 students from 8,104 institutions under 10 education boards, including one madrassah and one technical board, sat for the HSC a...
The authorities expelled three female students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) on Wednesday night on charge of assaulting another female student in the name of ragging.
The expulsion order came from an emergency meeting of the JU syndicate at night.
The expelled students are Shammi Rezwana, Sabrina Akter Nitu and Rafia, honours second year students of the Marketing Department.
Sources said the trio assaulted the victim, Momtaz Begum Antara, a first year student of honours coarse of the same department, on July 18 as she did not turn up at their room the da...
English medium schools in metropolitan areas cannot charge more than Tk 30,000 in admission fees and session fees. And Tk 3,000 is the maximum amount of monthly fees they can collect.
These along with a set of new guidelines on admission procedures and fees in private English medium schools and colleges come in a new draft policy that Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) submitted to the High Court on Tuesday.
The draft policy titled “Private English Medium School and College St...
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.
The 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...
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.
However, Harvard has helpfully ...
