State minister says teaching the prescribed curriculum alone will not help children who have fallen behind

The government yesterday transferred 30 education ministry officials to different colleges outside Dhaka over allegations of

Results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published on July 23 across the country simultaneously.

Any private educational institution, wishing to hike salaries of its teachers and staff, cannot increase the monthly tuition fees of students more than 30 percent of the existing fees.

The education ministry asks the home ministry to shut unapproved Peace International Schools immediately.

Bangladesh government orders closure of Darul Ihsan University and all illegal branch campuses of privately-run universities.

The Education Ministry issues a directive requiring the deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) to sign the salary bills of private school and college teachers and employees in case of any complicacies under the existing system though which their salaries are disbursed with signatures of the governing body chiefs of these institutions.

The education ministry today issues show cause notices against seven school and college inspectors for providing wrong information about 19 institutions under Dhaka, Rajshahi and Dinajpur education boards.

Ministry of Primary and Mass Education decides to appoint 28,000 teachers waiting on panel and pool lists who qualified as assistant teachers of the government primary schools in 2012.

The government serves show-cause notices to 1,209 educational institutions, including many top ranking ones, for not responding to the ministry over the allegation of taking extra admission fees, the education minister says.

As the SSC and equivalent examinations are in progress, the government has reminded all of the consequences of spreading rumour about question paper leakage and any evil attempt to leak those.

The government directs the country’s all educational institutions to beef up their security measures.

The government plans to introduce 40 percent quota for local students in secondary school admission across metropolitan cities in the country.

Students from now on will have to qualify in the test examinations along with 70 percent class attendance to sit for SSC and HSC examinations.

Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will begin from November 1.

Two days after the government failed to publish the results of the first merit list for class XI admission due to technical glitch, Professor Abu Bakkar Siddique, chairman of Dhaka Education Board, expresses hope that it will be published today.

Education ministry asks the affected education institutions to cut down the summer vacation in half if needed for the recently passed political violence.

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Postponed SSC and equivalent exams of March 8 and March 10 will be held on March 27 and March 28 respectively. The exams of March 27 will begin at 9:00am, while those of March 28 at 10:00am

Elections to Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations will be held before the month of Ramadan, says Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad.