Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni today said the government has no plan to shut educational institutions due to the spike in the Covid-19 cases right now.

Residential halls of Khulna Engineering and Technology University (Kuet) reopened today 35 days after remaining closed centring the death of the university’s Prof Salim Hossain.

Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have decided to suspend in-person classes from Sunday (January 9) due to the present Covid-19 situation.

The Dhaka University authorities have taken the initiative to rearrange the number of seats for the first-year honour’s students.

Amidst the hectic last-minute preparations, drawbacks still remain.

The authorities of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Kuet) have expelled four students, including Sadman Nahiyan Sejan -- general secretary of the university unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League -- in connection with the death of Prof Md Selim Hossain, teacher of the university's electrical and electronics engineering (EEE) department.

A student of Jahangirnagar University was critically injured in a head-on collision between two battery-run auto-rickshaws on the university campus today.

Bangladesh Chhatra League General Secretary Lekhak Bhattacharya was injured during a clash that broke out between two factions of the ruling Awami League’s student body at Dhaka University campus today.

BRIDGE Foundation works for the skill development of people with disabilities. The Co-founder, Swarna Moye Sarker, is one of the 22 Bangladeshi changemakers who have been selected for the Acumen Fellowship in 2021. She has completed her bachelor’s and master’s from Dhaka City College.

Jahangirnagar University unit of Chhatra League announced a two-member partial committee this evening.

Bangladeshi students seeking visas for admission to German universities will have to wait 10 to 12 months amid the surge of Covid-19 cases across the world.

Despite having no fingers to grip a pen, Mobarak Ali, 16, has passed last year’s SSC examination obtaining GPA-3.84. Despite an insurmountable odd, Mobarak clung to the hope to pursue his education. He would write with his leg up to class two. Later, he learnt how to write gripping pen with his wrists.

School authorities handed over new textbooks to students yesterday, the first day of the academic year, though many authorities could not give full sets of secondary textbooks.

Dr Shamsuddoha Khandokar has been elected chairman of the board of trustees at Eastern University (EU), said a press release.

Although the government could not hold the “Textbook Festival” this year due to the pandemic situation, students of many schools got their new textbooks on the first day of the New Year.

After a difficult 2020, the county’s education sector returned to some degree of normalcy last year.

Online enrolment to Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent courses for the academic session 2021-2022 is scheduled to begin from January 8.

With three optional subjects and exams carrying fewer marks, this year’s SSC candidates have achieved outstanding results, showing an increase in pass rates and number of GPA-5 achievers in nine general education boards.

It will not be possible to keep schools open in case the number of Covid cases rises again, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said yesterday.

The University Grants Commission has said in its latest annual report that it wants closure of evening, weekend and executive courses at public universities as they negatively impact universities’ image.