The students, who postponed their quota reform demonstration yesterday, today decided to wage movement afresh at all universities and colleges across the country until their demand is met. The demonstration will be continued from 10:00am to 7:00pm everyday from tomorrow for the sake of safety of the female students, said Moshiur Rahman, a joint convener of Bangladesh General Students' Rights Protection Forum. "We won’t stay aside from the movement until Prime Minister ...details

When we entered the new campus of United International University (UIU), the cavernous layer which is usually buzzing with students was quiet during the lazy Thursday afternoon. But the laziness in the atmosphere faded once we entered the room full of college students laboriously working on their computers and designing their robots for the first ever robotics competition for college students in Bangladesh. We visited the new campus near ...details

The government has decided to keep coaching centres across the country closed from Thursday, apparently to prevent the leakage of question papers during the upcoming Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations beginning on April 2. Secondary and Higher Education Division Secretary Sohrab Hossain came up with the decision while talking to journalist on Tuesday, reports UNB. The coaching centres will remain shut until the examinations end, he said, adding that ...details

The government will decide question sets of the upcoming Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations 30 minutes before the tests in a bid to prevent question paper leak. "Education board will decide the question sets 30-minute prior to the exams through lottery," Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid came up with the announcement at press conference after emerging from a meeting at the ministry office today. The education minister held the ...details

The result of the 37th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) final examinations will be published in April. “We will publish the final results of the 37th BCS in April. We have tried to publish the result in less timeframe,” Chairman of Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) Dr Muhammed Sadique told Bangla daily Prothom Alo. The final results are going to be published two years after the gazette notification was published. The written test of ...details

An online quiz competition, based on the history of Liberation War in Bangladesh, has been launched in a bid to spread the spirit of the War of Liberation among school students across the country. Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza inaugurated the competition title ‘quiz71’ at a ceremony at Liberation War Museum in Dhaka’s Agargaon area today. Students from class VI to XII will take part in the contest after completing their ...details

Abu Zafar Surza has been elected as the president of Dhaka Union of Journalists(DUJ). He bagged 712 votes from the Abu Zafar Surza-Sazzad Alam Khan Topu panel. On the other hand, Sohel Haider Chowdhury has been elected as the general secretary. He got 549 votes from the Quddus Afrad-Sohel Haider Chowdhry panel. The DUJ election was held in a peaceful atmosphere at the National Press Club in the city ...details

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There are stories, now and then, of people succeeding in achieving higher education despite significant obstacles. This story isn't one of them. Thirty-three-year-old rickshaw-van puller Shahidul Islam, of Krishnabati village in Jessore's Arippur union, never found a way to continue schooling beyond class five. Despite that failure, and despite struggling with ongoing hardship, such is Shahidul's enthusiasm for education that he does all he can to help others. Locally he's ...details

A senior education official says it is not possible to stop question leaks in public exams in the existing system. The government is trying to find ways to overhaul the system with recommendations from all stakeholders, said Md Sohrab Hossain, secretary to the Secondary and Higher Education Division. “In the current situation, we need to devise a new system with no scope to leak the questions,” he told the media at his ...details