Tag: campus

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…

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…

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…

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…

Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) AK Azad Chowdhury on Saturday said they are following a restrictive policy to approve subjects of arts and humanities in new universities.

Teachers at Rajshahi University have united against students protesting fee hike and evening classes, despite their political differences. Thousands of students have been on strike to press for their demands when they came under attack by student activists of the…

Dhaka – Primary and Mass Education Ministry has so far allocated about Tk 300.7 crore for reconstructing 352 primary schools damaged in attacks by BNP-Jamaat men during the 10th parliamentary elections.

The indefinite strike, called by the general students of Rajshahi University (RU) protesting fee hike and opening of evening programmes there, is going on for the third consecutive day today (Saturday).

The drive among students to become entrepreneurs when they grow up decreases as they get older, new research shows. A Gallup-Hope study revealed that students’ desire to start their own business is lower among high schoolers than middle schoolers, and…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has pledged to give Notebooks to all students in future so they can download books from the internet. “We will give Notebooks (to students) that will have everything. Digital books will also be given in the…

South Sudan officially known as the Republic of South Sudan is a land-locked country in middle Africa. South Sudan is bordered by the Republic of Sudan to the north, Kenya to the Southeast, Uganda to the south, the Democratic Republic…