Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detains seven people including three doctors in Rangpur city for their alleged involvement in leaking out question papers of medical admission test.

A Dhaka court places University Grants Commission (UGC) Assistant Director Omar Siraj and two others on two-day remand each on charge of question-paper leakage for admission test of medical colleges.

The results of the admission test of MBBS and Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) were published with a pass rate of 58.4 percent.

For the thrill of exploring uncharted waters or for the intellectual and personal challenges involved, studying overseas is a hope many of us nurture; but the extortionate international tuition fees can prove an enormous hurdle. So what should we keep in mind when applying for financial aid?

Government scraps 7.5 percent VAT on private universities and medical colleges’ tuition fees in face of mass student protests. The decision has been announced in a notice issued from the finance ministry.

Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh (APUB) calls upon the government to reconsider its decision to impose VAT on the universities.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith says the private university students will not have to pay any VAT.

Private university students hit the streets across Dhaka demanding withdrawal of the 7.5 percent VAT imposed on tuition fees - a day after police opened fire on East West University students demonstrating on the same demand.

As a student of the national curriculum, I had learned to accept my life for the stressful, miserable phenomenon that it is from an early age. But no amount of mental preparation was enough for admission tests, a spectacle that turned out to be far more terrifying than I could have ever imagined.

There are two types of students in Bangladesh, ones who are complete and utter disappointments to their parents, and others who study engineering or medicine.

Stressing that education is a basic right, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says children must be enrolled in Class-I without any written admission test.

A total of one crore and 30 lakh primary school students will get monthly stipend, Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman says.

For high school students seeking higher education in the USA or Canada, the SAT Reasoning Test needs no introduction.

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“Imagine Write Creatively”, a joint initiative by The Daily Star (TDS) and United International University (UIU), hosted its sixth workshop at the premises of the senior section of Marie Curie School in Dhanmondi, Dhaka on August 27.

The act of "manspreading", or sitting with legs wide apart on public transport, is among 1,000 new words to enter the online Oxford dictionary.

TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library), established in 1999, is a programme of Cornell University Library's Albert R. Mann Library, in partnership with leading publishers, to provide access to agricultural research literature.

We all want to remove illiteracy from the face of our country but not a lot of us can gather the time to help out as our lives are tightly knit in our busy schedules.

ULAB School of Business took the initiative to conduct a seminar and workshop on business ethics which was unique in nature and to the best of knowledge first of its kind in Bangladesh.

For the past few years, board exams in Bangladesh followed a common trend: each year there was a higher passing and GPA 5 rate than the year before.