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Milestone Tragedy and Our Response

Milestone School and College experienced quite an unexpected and unfathomable tragic incident, the first of its kind in Bangladesh. However, our response to that pathetic incident did not seem rational. On 22 July, just after the day of the Milestone incident two advisors namely law and education were detained for 9 hours by the students who could not come to the main road and then again, their security men took them back to the college where they had to remain for 9 hours and finally, they were rescued by security men through an alternative way. The students from adjacent areas also...

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Milestone Tragedy and Our Response

Milestone School and College experienced quite an unexpected and unfathomable tragic incident, the first of its kind in Bangladesh. However, our response to that...

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In Chattogram, our Education Advisor recently said, “It will not take much time to change the country when education touches all. Education makes humans...

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Women Education, Empowerment and Poverty Eradication

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Neo-Liberal Hegemony and The Education Policy of Bangladesh

The role of education is to build the nation and making linkages with knowledge and empowerment. It is true that education directly influences politics,...

The Education Reform: Learning from Vietnam Example

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Competency-based Primary Education Curriculum

Introduction The competency-based primary education is a major initiative for ensuring the quality of outcome of the learners. It is one of the major educational endeavors in order to achieve the Education for All (EFA) and ensuring the quality of education to the all learners since this competency-based education is focused on the qualitative aspect of learning outcome of the...

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Investing in Children Education

Information on the growth of income per person across the developing nations reveals that at least one important measure of skills is consistently correlated...

Non-Formal Education for Achieving Adult Literacy in the E-9 Countries

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Unhealthy situation in Education Sector

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The Hegemony of the Dominant: Barriers for building Popular Education in Bangladesh

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New Vision Old Challenges: The State of Pre-primary Education in Bangladesh

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The Relationship between Education Index and GDP Index

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Proposed National Education Policy: Gender Perspective

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Student Politics in Bangladesh: An Impact on Quality Assurance in Education and National Development

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Science Education Declines in the Age of Science

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Ranking Secondary Schools

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Need Assessment of a Short Course on Educational Evaluation and Assessment

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Milestone Tragedy and Our Response

Milestone School and College experienced quite an unexpected and unfathomable tragic incident, the first of its kind in Bangladesh. However, our response to that pathetic incident did not seem rational. On 22 July, just after the day of the Milestone...