Mohiuddin Alamgir

Vice-chancellors of public universities have decided in principle that admission tests for enrolling first year students will be held across the country.

The University Grants Commission is set to propose that this year’s HSC exam results not be given any weight in the university admission test process as the government is awarding candidates grades without holding the public exams.

Around 2.8 lakh Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) students, under Bangladesh Technical Education Board, are uncertain as to how they would be graded in the newly adapted HSC grading system.

Lonely and bored, Mahdia Mahmud is now having trouble concentrating.

Students who could have failed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations this year are set to get their certificates as no student will be left behind under the government’s new grading system.

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of this year have been cancelled due to health-safety concerns.

Golam Kibria used to teach at a private school in Parbatipur town in Dinajpur before the pandemic hit the country.

The government has undertaken a programme worth $550 million with an aim to procure and distribute coronavirus vaccines.

The government has undertaken a programme worth $550 million with an aim to procure and distribute coronavirus vaccines.

The government is set to launch next year a non-formal education programme for nine lakh children who have either dropped out of, or never gone to, school.

Advanced Level examinations of the October and November session began yesterday amid parents’ concern about the grades their children would get as many could not prepare for the tests properly due to the closure of schools.

Advanced Level examinations of the October and November session are set to begin today amid the coronavirus pandemic, leaving many candidates and their guardians in utter dismay and anxiety.

Despite some loopholes, the implementation of an electronic system for public procurement, replacing paper-based lengthy process, has been a boon for Bangladesh as it is saving millions of dollars and reducing time in the bidding process, the World Bank said.

The government gave approval to British Council to administer Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations in October and November while students continue protests demanding the cancellation of exams amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bidders need to give bribes in the form of financial benefits, arrange trips and host dinners for government officials to win public procurement contracts, says a World Bank report.

Ordinary and Advanced level examinations for the October-November session will not be assessed based on predicted grades, British Council Bangladesh has said quoting Cambridge Assessment International Education and Pearson’s Edexcel examination boards.

Shabeeb has been having trouble concentrating on his studies for the last few days. Stuck at home for six months, the fourth grader of a reputed private school in the capital has become bored and depressed.

Many field level polls officials share passwords of a software with data entry officers for corrections to national identity cards, which ultimately gives criminals the scope for forging the cards.

Sources say some data entry employees sell criminals passwords

A group of private A-level examination candidates urged authorities concerned to not hold exams amid the pandemic, as it will put students in severe health risks.