Wasim Bin Habib

For schoolchildren all over the country, the first morning of the New Year came with the refreshing smell of fresh textbooks. As they went to their respective schools braving the morning chill yesterday, they each were handed over a new set of textbooks at all primary and secondary schools. Beaming with joy, some students held the books up in the air, while some were flipping through the pages after receiving them with a feeling of sheer happiness written on their faces.

Class-VIII students have done better than ever in Junior School Certificate (JSC) examination, taking the success rate to a new height.

With just about 20 days before the new academic year, only half of the total primary school textbooks have been printed and dispatched to different upazilas for distribution. The task is almost complete for the secondary-level books.

Guardians aspiring to admit their children to primary and secondary levels in government high schools have got

The fate of the residents of Yingxiu changed forever the moment an earthquake hit the small town with the magnitude of 8 on a

Although a major chunk of the secondary textbooks for the next academic year have already reached different upazilas, the printing job

The government will form in a month a separate commission to recruit teachers at the non-government educational institutions in order to curb corruption in the recruitment process.

As more than a hundred countries observe the World Teachers Day today, around 4.5 lakh teachers in Bangladesh are waging movement over pay and due dignity.

The government is now looking for alternative ways to give public university teachers the benefits of selection grade and time scale which have been dropped from the national pay scale.

Academic activities in public schools, colleges and universities are being badly affected as teachers continue their protest over the new pay scale, but the government has yet to take any visible measure to diffuse the unrest.

The ongoing teachers' movement over the new pay scale is disrupting academic activities at public educational institutions, especially at university and college levels. Teachers yesterday staged fresh protests at several universities over the finance minister's remark on their movement, demanding that AMA Muhith withdraw his remark in 24 hours.

After failing to keep its electoral pledge to eradicate illiteracy from the country by 2014, the government seems unlikely to meet by this year the Millennium Development Goal of hundred percent literacy of the population above 15 years.

At first glance, it looks like the entrance of a tunnel.

Although the government has completed the second phase of the class XI admission, more than 2 lakh students could not yet get admitted to any college,

UU Laboratory College, an institution in Uttara's Azampur, took approval from the authorities around six years ago, but never enrolled any student. As a

The cost of education in private universities, private medical and engineering colleges might go up if the finance minister's proposal to levy 10 percent VAT on them goes through parliament.

Although the budgetary allocation to the education sector rises every year, it is still inadequate for ensuring quality education.

After a six-year uptrend, the SSC results this year show a significant drop in pass rates and the number of GPA-5 achievers, which is largely blamed on political unrest and students' not performing as expected in mathematics.

April 24 -- a day that the survivors of Rana Plaza collapse find too difficult to forget as the day turned their world upside down.

Anjuara Begum made her way through a crowd with small steps towards the piles of the debris-strewn disaster site in Savar. She