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Scintilla Science Club to organise 65th Annual Science Festival

SHOUT, the youth supplement of The Daily Star, will host a workshop on science fiction story writing.
3 June 2022

Our schools need better facilities, now

Access to proper facilities has always been a problem in schools. It needs to change.
2 June 2022

All that’s wrong with the national school curriculum

The shortcomings in our National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) are many.
2 June 2022

Our schools deserve better leadership

While authorised political activities among school students doesn’t exist, we're aware its going on in the background
2 June 2022

Adapting students from diverse academic backgrounds

Helping first year students from diverse academic backgrounds adapt is a challenge for universities.
2 June 2022

Of public schools and their woes

As the new fiscal year is set to begin, will the state of public schools remain unchanged?
31 May 2022

Bangladeshi entrepreneur opens first of its kind agricultural school in Maldives

Bangladeshi entrepreneur Ahmed Mottaki has founded the first of its kind “School of Agriculture” at MI College, an international-level educational institution in the Maldives.
16 May 2022

Making a case for the quiet kid in class

Itroverts too can socialise, but within certain limits.
11 May 2022

Chapters on Mughals, Islamic empires removed from classes 11, 12 syllabi in India

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education has removed chapters on the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, chronicles of Mughal courts and the industrial revolution from the history and political science syllabi of classes 11 and 12.
23 April 2022

Dhaka needs a city school bus service, now!

Benefits of a school bus system can only be realised via proper implementation.
30 March 2022

Why are we back to online classes?

Teacher-student interaction is not the same through our screens.
5 February 2022

What if we had a four-day school week?

It's definitely an approach worth considering.
29 December 2021

An open letter to our teachers

"Respected teachers, give us time and space to grow."
22 December 2021

Reflections of a Young Teacher

A young teacher talks about his teaching experience.
5 October 2021

School Friends and A Regret

School's not what I miss. It’s the memories with my friends I wish to relive.
31 August 2021

“English For Today” Wishes It Were More Popular Today

Frustrated, the book has finally voiced its complaint.
10 August 2021

The woes and misery of a pandemic examinee

From school-going children to students pursuing their masters, people from various age groups have been suffering the plight of being a pandemic examinee.
8 August 2021

Textbooks taken away from student for failing to pay picnic fee

Headmaster of a primary school in Nilphamari has allegedly taken away textbooks from a fifth grader as she failed to pay the school’s annual picnic fee.
4 February 2020

Schooling without learning is a wasted opportunity

Bangladesh has made a space for itself in the region. Over the last few decades, there has been stable economic growth underpinned by increased investments for human development, poverty alleviation, increased access to microcredit,
4 May 2019