The High Court yesterday declared illegal the recruitment of 138 teachers and staffers of Rajshahi University appointed by the then Vice Chancellor Prof M Abdus Sobhan on May 5, 2021 -- the last dayof his term.

Dhaka University authorities yesterday cancelled the venue booking for a scheduled discussion on the updated school curriculum, terming it an anti-government event.

While the new competency-based national curriculum is being readily accepted by the students, ensuring its smooth implementation requires addressing the guardians’ concerns and providing adequate training to teachers, speakers told a roundtable yesterday.

Australia on Monday said it would tighten visa rules for international students and low-skilled workers that could halve its migrant intake over the next two years as the government looks to overhaul what it said was a "broken" migration system.

Academic and co-curricular activities at a government primary school in Kaliganj upazila are being badly hampered as the schoolground remains under stagnant water nearly four months a year.

Rab yesterday detained 37 people for their involvement in fraud relating to assistant primary teachers’ recruitment tests in Gaibandha.

Among them, 26pc suffer from mild depression, 26pc from moderate depression, and 22pc from severe depression

A group of students of Jahangirnagar University seized at least 20 buses of "Selfie Paribahan" today following the death of a former student who was hit by a bus of the same paribahan

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College to admit 21 children, whose siblings have already been admitted, to class one in seven days.

The admission tests for Dhaka University for the academic year 2023-24 will start from February 23 with arts, law and social sciences units.

The decision was made at the 252nd syndicate meeting of the university today

Another student arrested

The UGC yesterday announced that it will not be able to hold uniform admission test from the upcoming 2023-24 academic year “due to unavoidable reasons”.

The District Primary Education Office postponed today’s annual exams of 179 government primary schools in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur.

The pass rate in this year’s HSC examinations has dropped to 75.90 percent from last year’s 84.31, while the number of students with a GPA-5 has halved from last year’s 1,59,755.

While an overall decline in the pass rate and number of GPA-5 holders marked this year’s Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations, the Technical Education Board has emerged as the top-performing board.

The pass rate in this year's HSC examinations has dropped to 75.90 percent from last year's 84.31, while the number of students with a GPA-5 has halved from last year's 1,59,755

Dhaka had the highest number of GPA-5 recipients in the HSC exams, while Barishal Education Board had the highest pass rate among nine educational boards

Forty-two educational institutions across the country did not have a single student who passed in this year's Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent exams, according to the results published today

Girls have outperformed boys in terms of pass rate in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams for 14 years in a row