Sunday, July 13th, 2008The country has no alternative to using science education as a tool for improving the living standards of the people and for dealing with the economic and environmental challenges it faces, experts said.Alarmed at the decline of the quality of science education and student enrolment for it, key scientists and educationists of the country yesterday stressed the need for sensitising the government to allocating a larger budget for the sector to enhance teachers' capacities and update the curricula.Science textbooks need to be simplified, teachers' salaries need to be raised, and science graduates need to be motivated to become teachers, said ...
(read more) Tuesday, June 12th, 2007The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination results under seven education boards will be published in the afternoon today.The results of secondary certificate examination under Technical Education Board and Madrasa Education Board will also be published simultaneously.The examinees can collect their results from their respective institutions or examination centres at 5:00pm.Besides, examinees having GrameenPhone, Banglalink, Aktel, CityCell and Teletalk connections can get results through SMS (short message service).Candidates have to type RESfirst three letters of their respective boardsroll number and then send to 2777 for getting results through SMS.For example, an examinee of Dhaka Board with roll number 459852, ...
(read more) Wednesday, January 17th, 2007Textbooks for classes IX and X published by the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) contain numerous errors and anomalies, including spelling mistakes, faulty chapter and paragraph arrangement, and repetition and omission of articles.The errors in the textbooks, which were published at different printing presses in the capital and hit the market recently, confused and disappointed students.Visiting several bookstores and going through the books, The Daily Star found that 30 pages were missing in the Bangla prose book--Madhyamik Bangla Shankolan--for the students of Secondary School Certificate (SSC).Printed by Harun Printers at Rupchan Lane, Dhaka-1000, the content page of the book ...
(read more) Tuesday, January 9th, 2007The process is on to hurriedly recruit 782 pro-BNP-Jamaat people under the Secondary Education Sector Development Project (SESDP) as beneficiaries in the education sector during the five years of the immediate past BNP-Jamaat government are manipulating the process. Whereas all recruitment processes in the education sector usually involve written tests and viva voce, the recruitment for the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded seven-year project is being conducted only through taking viva voce that began on December 27.The SESDP is the follow-up project of five-year long Secondary Education Support Programme (SESP) that ended on December 31, 2006. All the officers of the ...
(read more) Monday, October 9th, 2006One significant feature that separates our leaders from those elsewhere is their total lack of accountability in practically everything they do including what they say. What goes on here in terms of political speech making is nothing short of calling names and hurling abuses. It is with the same habit of irresponsible uttering that the Awami League (AL) chief spoke about the editors of The Daily Star and Prothom Alo last Saturday.That Sheikh Hasina may find things to criticise this writer and the editor of Prothom Alo either for what is published in the papers we edit or for our ...
(read more) Friday, September 8th, 2006Notre Dame College, Viqarunnisa Noon (VN) College and Dhaka City College secured first, second and third position for the second consecutive year in terms of having the highest number of GPA-5 achievers in the HSC exams under Dhaka Board.Considering the ratio of GPA-5 achievers and total examinees, Viqarunnisa Noon College stood first with 45.41 percent followed by Notre Dame College with 40.11 percent and Holy Cross College with 37.23 percent.Birshrestha Noor Mohammad Rifles Public School & College, Dhaka College, Dhaka Commerce College, Motijheel Ideal School and College, Holy Cross College, Rajuk Uttara Model School and College, and Residential Model ...
(read more) Friday, September 8th, 2006Not a single examinee in 86 educational institutions including 31 Alia madrasas could come out successful in this year's HSC or equivalent examination.However, the number of colleges and madraras with zero success rate reduced significantly against 131 of the last year.Sixteen technical colleges, 22 colleges under Rajshahi board, eight under Jessore board, five under Chittagong board, three under Barisal board and one under Dhaka board are also on the list of no-success institutions.On the other hand, 388 colleges and madrashas across the country achieved brilliant result with 100 per cent pass while the number was 214 last year.Of the ...
(read more) Friday, September 8th, 2006As many as 9,450 students secured the highest Grade Point Average (GPA) 5 in this year's Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations breaking all the previous records.Among them 5,621 are boys and 3,829 are girls. Last year 5,509 students achieved the GPA-5, comprising 3,426 boys and 2,083 girls.Dhaka Board topped the GPA-5 achievers' list with 4,837 students performing the feat, Rajshahi ranked second with 2,035 and Chittagong grabbed the third position with 1,006. Of the achievers other boards, there are 732 students in Jessore Board, 447 in Comilla, 239 in Barisal and 158 in Sylhet.Besides, 412 madrasa students under Madrasa ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Patrons and leaders of Qawami madrasas yesterday said they will not allow any government interference in formulating curriculum or functioning of their madrasas even if the government commits funds for them. "We won't let the government interfere in formulating syllabus for our madrasas," Chairman of an Islamic Oikya Jote (IOJ) faction Mufti Fazlul Huq Aminee MP told The Daily Star yesterday."However, if the government has any suggestions in this regard, we will take those into account," he added.Aminee is the chairman of one of the four boards tasked with drawing up curriculum and overseeing examinations for the Qawami madrasas.Echoing ...
(read more) Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006The government's decision to acknowledge Qawami madrasa education system yesterday kicked up an uproar all around, with academics, politicians and civil society members terming it a rash political decision designed only to make the Islamic parties in the ruling alliance happy. The government did not even bother to evaluate the quality of education in the Qawami education system and upgrade Fazil-Kamil curriculum and syllabi before settling for this controversial decision, said sources at the education ministry.They alleged that the ruling party BNP caved in to the mounting pressure from its coalition partners-- Jamaat-e-Isalami, who rallied for Fazil-Kamil degree to ...
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