This year’s Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent exams are set to begin today, after over a nine-month delay due to the Covid-19 situation.

This year's Secondary School Certificate and equivalent exams are set to begin tomorrow (Sunday), over nine months after the scheduled time due to the Covid-19 situation.

Treading into the waters of applying to study abroad can look vast and apprehensive for students, considering there is a surcharge of information on the internet about getting into foreign universities. There are, however, various educational consultancies around Bangladesh, most of which provide services from Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today asked Unesco to declare remote learning and online education as a global public good as these are creating a new divide.

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni has been elected as a member of the UNESCO-led Sustainable Development Goal-4 (SDG-4)-Education High Level Steering Committee in the Asia-Pacific region.

However, not everything is as rosy as it seems.

The question paper of Saturday’s recruitment test for hiring 1,511 cash officers in five state-owned banks was leaked from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST), which was tasked with preparing the questions.

Students may have to walk in an already un-walkable city.

Long queues, mismanagement in the vaccine centres and multiple difficulties in the registration process have dampened the excitement surrounding the government’s initiative to inoculate schoolchildren aged 12-17 with Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine.

Asian University for Women (AUW), an independent international university chartered by the Parliament of Bangladesh and located in the Port City of Chittagong is inaugurating a two-year Masters of Education course beginning on January 16th, 2022. 

A leader of Muktijuddho Moncho’s Rajshahi University unit locked five rooms -- with students inside -- of Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Hall at the university today.

The authorities of Rajshahi University (RU) are going to recognise top 100 researchers of the university as part of celebrating Mujib Borsho and golden jubilee of the nation’s independence.

Admissions to all government and non-government secondary schools in the coming academic session are likely to be held through a central lottery.

Mohammad Zakaria, the student who secured the top position in “Kha” unit of Dhaka University admission test this year, said his mother’s inspiration was the driving force behind his success at the test.

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni today said students will get free textbooks on time in the next academic year (2022) all over the country.

The admission test of 'A' unit of Jahangirnagar University which was expected to be held on November 7 and 8, has been rescheduled to November 20 and 21.

A report last month said nearly eight million students across the country were at risk of learning loss due to the prolonged school closure caused by the pandemic, but the government still appears to be in the dark about the situation on the ground.

The Rajshahi University authorities have finally taken necessary steps to change the university’s questionable teacher recruitment policy-2017 and formulate the new recruitment policy.

The High Court yesterday issued a contempt of court rule against Dhaka University’s Vice Chancellor Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman, its former VC Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique, and two others on charges of violating the Supreme Court directives over giving seniority and financial benefit to a teacher.

Chittagong Medical College student Mahadi J Aqib’s health condition has improved, said doctors today.