Mohiuddin Alamgir

Private universities that have completed 70 percent of academic activities for outgoing semester and have been conducting online classes successfully for theoretical courses will be able to evaluate their students through online viva exams, keeping the video open and through virtual presentations.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved the disbursement and increment of stipends, and extension of Primary Education Stipend Project (PESP), paving the way for financially assisting 1.37 crore elementary students, which was halted for over six months.

Over one month after the introduction of televised classroom lectures for school students, guardians are still not happy about the quality of the lessons.

Risk of poor students dropping out from primary schools is growing as the government stipend distribution remains halted for six months and school feeding programme withheld for over a month.

Private universities have sought a stimulus package from the government to shore them up amid closure of all academic institutions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Private universities seek a stimulus package from the government to shore them up amid closure of these institutions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The education ministry and the University Grants Commission (UGC) have asked all private and public universities to complete the current semester through online classes. However, private universities can only take exams in line with UGC’s guidelines.

National Professor Jamilur Reza Choudhury will be remembered for his extraordinary service to the nation.

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) asks all teachers of secondary schools to lend farmers a hand in an attempt to speed up the harvest of Boro paddy as flash flood can occur in several districts at any time.

In light of rising concerns over the Covid-19 outbreak, public universities had earlier shut down in-person classes. But most of them are yet to offer students alternative online education.

The postponed Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations may begin at the end of next month.

The Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) has kept open over 5,400 primary schools in haor areas to accommodate labourers harvesting paddy.

The government will provide two months’ basic salary as incentive for doctors and other health workers who are on the front line in the war against Covid-19 pandemic.

About 2.8 million students of madrasas, technical and vocational institutions, and English version are deprived of television education although their peers in general stream are receiving lessons to recover losses during the shutdown.

As the coronavirus outbreak unfolds, most of the 18,000 newly-recruited government primary teachers are yet to get salaries for March, and are uncertain whether they will receive the salary for the current month as all public offices are closed till April 25.

Six months ago, Abul Bashar invested around Tk 1.5 lakh in setting up two new 40-yard tables at his home-cum-factory. He was targeting bumper demand of batik clothes ahead of Pahela Baishakh and Eid-ul-Fitr.

Defying the government’s request to stay home to stem the spread of coronavirus, Sharif Hossain left his house in Sonargaon before the crack of dawn last Friday.

Yet another paid for his brutality while assassinating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members as sacked army captain Abdul Majed, a “self-confessed killer” of the Father of the Nation, walked to the gallows early yesterday.

The University Grants Commission yesterday said it would not accept the private universities’ request to postpone its decisions on stopping awarding grades to students without holding semester finals, enrolling new students without admission tests, and holding tests online.

The government is set to unveil its third stimulus package soon, offering cash aid to poor families that have been hit hard by the ongoing shutdown amid coronavirus scare.