Polytechnic students across the country resumed protests on Saturday, demanding urgent reforms through a six-point charter to fix long-standing problems in recruitment policies, education standards, and job opportunities.
Miftahul Jannat Ashra travelled all the way from Chattogram with her parents to claim the reward of years of hard work.
With students now on their Ramadan and Eid holiday, Wahiduddin, on his final day as adviser yesterday, once again promised that the books would be delivered by March 10.
Both the previous government (Awami League) and opposition groups recruited, paid, and used children in violence during the July uprising, a United Nations Fact-Finding Mission has reported.
Instead of dismantling organised crime, the interim government appears to be using law enforcement as another tool for political persecution
A month on, there is still no justice for violence against adivasis
The government’s advisory committee on primary education reform has proposed a new system for teacher recruitment.
The United Nations fact-finding report has exposed disturbing accounts of gender-based violence during the July uprising last year, with women protesters facing physical assaults, rape threats, and arbitrary detention.
One and a half years after it was launched, implementation of the new curriculum at schools is still in a shambles as the authorities are yet to finalise a method of evaluating the students.
Former army chief Gen (retd) Aziz Ahmed yesterday rejected the allegations the US authorities made while imposing sanctions against him and his immediate family members.
Wholesale prices of most imported spices have surged approximately by 20 percent in the markets of the capital, shortly after a Tk 7 increase in the dollar exchange rate.
The government yesterday instructed all secondary educational institutions to deposit the admission fees collected from students with the state coffer.
Fourteen students appeared in this year’s Secondary School Certificate exams from Ghagoa Girls High School in Gaibandha’s Sundarganj. However, none of them passed.
Girls have done better than boys in terms of pass rate in the SSC exams eight years in a row, and they have also outdone boys in achieving GPA-5 for seven consecutive years.
After witnessing two consecutive years of record numbers of GPA-5 achievers from the technical board, this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam saw the lowest number of GPA-5 achievers from the board in 12 years.
The government has made a fresh move to extend primary education up to class-VIII, six years after missing the original deadline set in the National Education Policy.
The reopening of educational institutions amid the heatwave was marred by two teachers’ deaths and dozens of students becoming sick.
As primary and secondary schools, along with colleges, reopen today, parents are expressing concerns about the scorching heat and its potential impact on their children’s health.
