Bangladesh education system
SSC Exams: 65pc weightages fixed for written, 35pc for activity-based tests
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams will be divided into two parts -- written and activity-based -- under the new curriculum
Why five-hour SSC exams will not be in students’ best interest
The choice to prolong the SSC examination period appears to diverge from global educational trends.
How much you can pay decides what education your child gets
After three decades since the primary education pledge was made, the cost of a child’s education remains a heavy burden for some 80 lakh households.
How should our engineering education evolve?
Over the years, engineering programmes in Bangladeshi universities have stagnated, still clinging to a 20th-century structure.
Good for students, good for teachers
If embraced by students, it has the potential to revolutionise their learning experience.
Implementing new curriculum will be challenging
There are many challenges to successfully implementing this new curriculum in Bangladesh.
Education needs resolute leadership of new ministers
The education that a child can acquire is currently a matter of how much his/her family can pay.
What may an education manifesto for 2024 look like?
It needs to recognise both the challenges and the opportunities.
The problem is not with coaching centres or ChatGPT. It's with our education system.
AI and edtech can be helpful for our students in an inclusive manner when the plans and programmes in this respect recognise the basic and long-standing weaknesses in the system.
SSC Exams: 65pc weightages fixed for written, 35pc for activity-based tests
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams will be divided into two parts -- written and activity-based -- under the new curriculum
Why five-hour SSC exams will not be in students’ best interest
The choice to prolong the SSC examination period appears to diverge from global educational trends.
How much you can pay decides what education your child gets
After three decades since the primary education pledge was made, the cost of a child’s education remains a heavy burden for some 80 lakh households.
How should our engineering education evolve?
Over the years, engineering programmes in Bangladeshi universities have stagnated, still clinging to a 20th-century structure.
Good for students, good for teachers
If embraced by students, it has the potential to revolutionise their learning experience.
Implementing new curriculum will be challenging
There are many challenges to successfully implementing this new curriculum in Bangladesh.
Education needs resolute leadership of new ministers
The education that a child can acquire is currently a matter of how much his/her family can pay.
What may an education manifesto for 2024 look like?
It needs to recognise both the challenges and the opportunities.
The problem is not with coaching centres or ChatGPT. It's with our education system.
AI and edtech can be helpful for our students in an inclusive manner when the plans and programmes in this respect recognise the basic and long-standing weaknesses in the system.
Protecting a generation in danger
Two recent studies under government auspices have confirmed the warnings given by Education Watch.
