Education
Things to consider when choosing a minor specialisation
Your minor specialisation should be aligned with your professional and personal goals.
Anime music helped me study for A levels. Here’s how
I repeated the process throughout what time was left, playing a different tune for every question paper.
Critical thinking in our curriculum: Too much or too little?
Critical thinking has always been emphasised heavily in education and with good reason.
Why we should include philosophy in our curriculum
As more students opt for STEM subjects for its financial prospects, the importance of liberal arts is shrinking.
The case for studying law
The word “lawyer” might invoke certain scenes and images in our minds.
What it takes to get into DU A unit
Dhaka University’s A unit is the path that leads to studying engineering, pure science, life science, etc.
How Dhaka University feels without street vendors
This decision has altered the campus experience for students.
A guide to applying for undergraduate programs in the United States
Applying to universities in the United States is a confusing, exhausting, and painful experience.
Anthropology: It's more than just old bones
As an undergraduate student of Anthropology, I've spent the past 4 years explaining to countless people what my major is. It's not an easy task because Anthropology is the result of some dissatisfied thinkers believing existing
New hub for book lovers
Are you bored of hanging out at overpriced restaurants and dingy cafes? Are you tired of judgmental gazes of the shopkeepers everytime you linger around in a bookstore? I surely am. As a bookworm, I have always dreamt of a place with shelves after shelves where I could just grab a book, a steaming cup of coffee and forget about the rest of the world.
SSC exams begin Feb 1
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent exams are scheduled to begin on February 1 next year.
Prepping for the SAT subject tests
Most of the Ivy League institutions, along with some other high calibre universities recommend or require the SAT Subject Tests. For example, Cornell University requires the test in two subjects for most Arts and Science majors.
The art of taking class notes
Taking hand-written notes is a lost art in the current digital era. Thankfully, owing to our “digital” country's reluctance in converting our classroom into a digital ecosystem, the art is not yet obsolete in this part of the world.
Self-learning business through YouTube videos
YouTube is one platform that provides education and information through the means of entertainment. If you're like me, you're most likely to put off a semester worth of syllabus until the night before exam and then regret doing so, only to repeat the whole agonising process all over again.
How to raise your Economics CGPA. For real.
From the moment I had stepped into the chapters of a university, life has firmly fastened itself to the tracks of a rollercoaster and not just any regular rollercoaster, but the sort that causes a boom and a recession.
Scrum for comfortable collaboration
Scrum is a very popular software development method used by software engineers that prioritises project planning and team management.
NU postpones Aug 26-29 exams
National University has postponed fourth-year honours examinations of 2016 and degree pass and certificate examinations of 2015 (old syllabus) scheduled from August 26 to August 29 due to flood.
