Mohiuddin Alamgir

The government and the development partners plan to inject more money into the economy for its recovery amid the pandemic while the progress in implementing the stimulus packages for employment creation and revitalisation of the rural economy remains slow.

Mohammad Alif’s life has utterly changed.

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), which had earlier shown reservation about joining centralised admission test, is now interested.

Bangladesh is going to be connected with a third submarine cable to meet the rapidly growing demand for internet bandwidth and ensure uninterrupted broadband internet services.

None of the government frontline workers infected with coronavirus received the compensation they were promised seven months ago. And families of only 42 of the 133 frontline workers who died with Covid-19 have been compensated as of November 4.

School admission in the coming academic session will be based on lottery and the application process will be done online.

The Election Commission has prepared a proposal for the second phase of a project to distribute smart NID cards among all citizens aged above 10.

Decision taken as they demanded 50% waiver of tuition fees, claim students; defamed university through falsehood, say authorities

The government is racing against time to print and distribute a whopping 36 crore copies of school textbooks at the upazila level on time due to severe disruptions to the massive undertaking, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Every November, the stress levels of many parents seeking to get their children admitted to private schools begin to escalate as the admission process of most reputed schools in the capital kicks off by the middle of this month.

In a sweeping change to primary and secondary schooling, the government may scrap the PECE and the JSC exams and dissolve the science, humanities and business disciplines.

The University Grants Commission considers providing 41,501 public university students with Tk 8,000 each interest-free loans so that they can buy smartphones and attend online classes amid the pandemic.

The government has warned all sixth to ninth-grade students that if they complete assignments using third-party guidebooks or copy from others, teachers would cancel the assignment and ask them to resubmit it.

The government is sitting on a UGC probe that found evidence of corruption and irregularities by Rajshahi University vice-chancellor and pro-VC in appointing RU teachers.

Education Minister Dipu Moni today said that the government is considering resuming classes for SSC and HSC examinees for the sake of their preparation.

The University Grants Commission is going to allow private university students, who are at their final semester, to attend practical classes and exams in person.

The government is aggressively seeking financial assistance from development partners to procure Covid-19 vaccine as soon as it hits markets.

The government is set to start the process of giving students of classes 6 to 9 assignments from November 1 in the absence of annual examinations.

More than one crore students of class 6-9 will be promoted to next classes this year without any annual examinations, the government announced yesterday.

Vice-chancellors of public universities yesterday decided in principle that admission tests for freshers would be held.