This year’s Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations begins across the country on Thursday. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid made this announcement at a press conference in Dhaka on Wednesday. As many as 1,141,374 examinees — 606,293 boys and…
A total of 98,287 candidates, including 47,638 female students, will appear at the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations under Dinajpur Education Board (DEB) tomorrow.
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists of Maulana Bhasani Hall of Jahangirnagar University beat a general student inside his dormitory room early Tuesday. Witnesses said the BCL activists, led by JU unit sub-secretary on mass education Didarul Islam entered the room…
A total of 1,13,338 students including 52,614 females are going to appear at the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations-2014 under the Rajshahi Education Board, scheduled to be held from April 3.
Speakers at a commemoration on the occasion of death anniversary of a valiant freedom fighter viewed that the spirit and values of our liberation war is a great legacy which has to be transferred to generation after generations . This…
Ex-prime minister of New Zealand Jim Bolger has said there is a scope for more university scholarships for Bangladeshi students to study in New Zealand, with a view towards benefitting both parties. “One area where I do believe we can…
President Abdul Hamid on Sunday underscored the need for improving the standard of higher education in the country. The President said this when a 10-member delegation of Chittagong University, led by its Vice Chancellor Prof Anwarul Azim Arif, met him…
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Saturday said teachers of all educational institutions must learn computer.
Speakers at the concluding ceremony of workshop on Wednesday afternoon called upon all concerned for ensuring the basic rights of all citizens to education in building a knowledge-based enlightened society.
The full text of the High Court verdict declaring illegal the obligation of passing separately in objective, creative and practical tests for physics, biology and chemistry in the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations was published on Wednesday. Following a writ…
Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, on Monday called hartal in Sylhet division for Thursday and Friday in protest against the expulsion of its 14 leaders and activists form Shahjalal University of Science and Technology(SUST). Shibir’s city unit press…
President Abdul Hamid on Saturday called for effective steps so poor students get access to private universities. “Education in private universities has become very expensive. So, the children of poor families can’t afford to study there,” the president said addressing…
Prof Farzana Islam, the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University, said on Wednesday she will focus on resolving the crisis that has afflicted the campus for months. “My first job will be to restore stability on the campus and its…
Pragotishil Chhatra Jote (PCJ) on Tuesday announced to postpone their ongoing movement at Rajshahi University (RU) against fee hike and continuation of evening master’s programmes. Leaders of the PCJ which had been leading the movement at the university made the…
A training workshop on ‘Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software’ organised for the teachers of different departments under the Faculty of Business Studies ended at Begum Rokeya University here on Saturday.
First year (Honours) classes of Rajshahi University (RU) under 2013-2014 academic session will start on March 10.
The viva-voce for the first year honours admission into Jahangirnagar University (JU) under 2013-14 academic session will begin from March 18. It will continue till March 20.
Students of Jagannath University, agitating to recover encroached halls, have occupied a piece of land belonging to Bangladesh Samabay Bank Limited. They declared setting up their ‘temporary Teacher Student Centre’ on that land on Tuesday. The students also lay siege…
The government has formed an eight-member committee, headed by a Jatiya Party lawmaker, to recover the illegally occupied halls of Jagannath University (JnU). An emergency meeting of the education ministry formed the committee on Monday. The move follows a month of…
Rajshahi University authorities have apologised for the attack on the students, agitating for a roll back of the fee hike and cancelation of evening courses. In a statement on Saturday, it also warned against Facebook propagandas over the incident. Police…
Observing that many private universities cannot fulfill the conditions set by the government, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Tuesday warned that stern actions will be taken if they fail to fulfill the required conditions within the stipulated time. He…
Students of Government Titumir College went on the rampage at BRAC University in Dhaka’s Mohakhali on Monday, damaging at least two vehicles. BRAC University students took to the street protesting the attack, halting traffic on one of Dhaka’s busiest streets…
Although their educational institutions were nationalised over a year back, some 5,500 teachers of government primary schools in Sylhet division are yet to be paid their salaries.
A team of 10 students of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) is now visiting Bangladesh. The participants arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday night under the “Visit Bangladesh Programme” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They will stay in…
Dropout students from the distressed and underprivileged communities in the city are getting financial support for continuing their institutional learning in the city, speakers at a grants-distribution ceremony said in Rajshahi on Wednesday.
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of 2014 will begin across the country from April 3 due to the ongoing Upazila Parishad elections. Subodh Chandra Dhali, Deputy Chief Information Officer of the Education Ministry, told journalists that the…
Dhaka – The seven schoolchildren who died in a tragic road accident in Chougachha upazila of Jessore on Saturday night were buried at their respective villages in Sharsha upazila of the district on Sunday. A pall of gloom descended on…
Some 3,280 primary schools in the country are eligible for upgrading to Class VIII according to a feasibility study conducted as per the recommendation of the National Education Policy 2010. Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman stated this in…
Dhaka – Some 55,000 students will receive scholarship in two categories this year in order of highest marks obtained in the Primary Terminal Examination.
National Professor and veteran sociologist Dr Rangalal Sen died at a hospital in the city on Monday. He was 82. Rangalal, a former teacher of Dhaka University, breathed his last at Surgical Hospital around 3:30pm, his son-in-law Dr Shikh Sankar…