997 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
Education and Primary and Mass Education Minister Dr. A.N.M. Ehsanul Haq Milon has announced that madrasa teachers' outstanding salaries for May and June will be paid together in July. He made the announcement on…
Qualitative changes will be brought to the education system to prevent students from wasting time in their academic lives, and the university admission process will also be coordinated, the Minister for Education and Primary…
Law students of the 2021-22 session at Cumilla University locked their department and held a sit-in on Tuesday in protest at semester finals not being held on time and delays in publishing results. The…
At least 32 students of a school in Tangail fell ill after drinking water from the school tubewell and were given primary treatment at the Nagarpur Upazila Health Complex, with two seriously ill students…
Dhaka University has decided to relieve a Bengali department professor, Chowdhury Md Tashrik-e-Habib, who went viral singing on social media, of his academic duties, acting on complaints from teachers and students of the department.…
Admission to class 11 for this year will begin in the last week of July, with students again admitted to colleges on the basis of GPA, education board sources said. The fully online process,…
Police in Nabinagar, Brahmanbaria, have arrested a presidential aspirant of the banned Chhatra League's upazila unit, Hamidur Rahman Tayef Sarkar, near the Konikara bridge on Monday night. After the arrest, a section of the…
Successive governments have prioritised infrastructure, free books, stipends and nutrition, but the welfare of teachers, the lifeblood of education, has been neglected, this opinion piece argues. It points to the long delay in implementing…
Tit-for-tat chases and attacks between two factions of Chhatra Dal over dominance left the Barishal Government Brojomohun (BM) College campus tense on Monday evening, with both sides holding protests and blocking the road. Police…
The government has formed four tiers of committees, at the national, divisional, district and upazila or thana levels, to manage the posting of newly appointed assistant teachers and the transfer of serving teachers in…
A 65-year-old schoolteacher has been killed in Rajshahi, allegedly struck on the head with a stick by his university-student son during a family dispute, police said. The death took place on Monday morning in…
This year's HSC and equivalent examinations are being held nationwide with the same question papers, and in future the common subjects of madrasa and technical education will also share the same questions, the Minister…
A case involving 32,000 primary head teachers will be resolved on July 2, after which 50,000 teachers can be appointed to government primary schools within the next three months, the Minister for Education and…
A new directive has been sent to all deputy commissioners on the Saturday papers of the 2026 HSC examinations, asking them to make arrangements for Seventh-day Adventist examinees to sit Saturday exams on a…
The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has issued a gazette notification forming a committee to manage, review and settle the transfer of teachers in government primary schools across the country. The step was…
Teachers' methods of teaching must change, with an emphasis on classroom and creative education, the Minister for Education and Primary and Mass Education, Dr A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon, has said. Speaking at…
From 2028, no untrained teacher will teach in any primary classroom in the country, and the policy will apply to all institutions, government, private, kindergarten and English-medium, the State Minister for Primary and Mass…
The president of the Rajshahi University unit of Chhatra Dal, Sultan Ahmed Rahi, has announced a 10,000-taka reward for handing over leaders and activists of the banned Chhatra League. He made the announcement on…
The entire government 'syndicate' is involved in the drug trade and controls a business worth hundreds of thousands of crores of taka, the central president of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, Nurul Islam Saddam, has…
The BCS viva will remain at 100 marks rather than 200, to make the oral examination more transparent and corruption-free, the minister in charge of the PSC Secretariat, Md Abdul Bari, told parliament. The…
Germany's fully funded 'DAAD Helmut-Schmidt Master's Scholarship' offers students from any country, including Bangladesh, the chance to complete a master's degree free of cost, with a monthly stipend of about 934 euros at the…
University education is not about a certificate but about becoming a humane, enlightened person, said Saeed Al Noman, founder vice-chairman of East Delta University and MP for Chattogram-10, at the closing of the EDUDS…
New Zealand is overhauling its post-study work visa policy for international students from November 16, 2026, NDTV reports. A new 'short-term graduate visa' will let students work for up to six months after a…
The government has decided to observe a one-year 'Nazrul Year,' from May 25, 2026 to May 25, 2027, to spread the works and humanist philosophy of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam among the new…
Technical education will be made mandatory from grade 6 at the secondary level to tackle unemployment and build a skilled workforce, Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon has said. Speaking at a…
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman said the Gold Cup football tournament would be extended from primary to secondary schools, urging students to prepare. Speaking at the Primary School Gold Cup final on Saturday, he said…
The promotion of 32,000 government primary school head-teacher posts is stuck in a backlog of litigation, holding up the appointment of new assistant teachers. An Appellate Division verdict in the key case is due…
Al Mujahidi, the Ekushey Padak-winning poet and former literary editor of the daily Ittefaq, died at a Dhaka hospital on Friday after kidney failure and a minor heart attack. He was a prolific figure…
The cabinet has approved a draft amendment to the Public Examinations Act providing for up to five years in jail and a fine for illegally altering public exam results, along with stiff penalties for…
Before the row over naming union councils after his two sons and a niece had even died down, a proposal has been sent to the Education Ministry to rename a historic Bogura girls’ high…
The Directorate of Primary Education has warned government primary-school teachers over social-media use, ordering urgent departmental action against those whose posts criticise or undermine the government’s image.
Education Minister Dr A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon said the Public Examinations Act now carries penalties for digital cheating, with up to five years in jail and a fine for hacking or illegally…
Al Mujahidi, the Ekushey Padak-winning poet and former literary editor of the daily Ittefaq, died on Friday at a Dhaka hospital at the age of 86 after a prolonged illness.
An option to submit June salary bills for teachers at MPO-listed institutions has opened, and the bills must be filed online through institution heads by June 22, a directorate source said.
France's renowned Dictionnaire mondial des litteratures, published by Larousse, has included Bangladesh's national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam as an important poet of the Bengali language.
Candidates in the upcoming HSC exams may use ordinary calculators, eight specified non-programmable scientific calculator models and non-programmable analog watches, the Dhaka board said.
The Primary and Mass Education Ministry has scrapped a plan to charge exam fees to third- to fifth-graders at government primary schools.
Candidates for the 2026 HSC exams may enter centers from 8:30 a.m. to ease nearby traffic and public disruption, the Dhaka education board said.
A headmaster in Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila climbed a mango tree to find a phone signal and submit his online attendance under a new government rule, according to reports.
Jahangirnagar University expelled two female students for two years over the possession and use of drugs in a hall room, the registrar said.
Students selected in the first phase of subject choices for the 20-university cluster admission must complete preliminary enrollment online between June 7 and June 10.
The Jahangirnagar University syndicate took final disciplinary action against 19 teachers and two officials accused of attacking and abusing students during the July movement.
Junior education minister Bobby Hajjaj outlined four core pillars and a new element for sustainable reform of the education system at a Cambridge event in Dhaka.
Education authorities have served show-cause notices on heads of institutions that submitted false teacher-vacancy data, warning their MPO benefits could be suspended or cancelled.
Students will receive their 2027 textbooks before Christmas, Education Minister A.N.M. Ehsanul Haque Milon said, adding that SSC results would be published by July 20.
The general secretary of Jahangirnagar University's central students' council reminisced about his university life in an emotional Facebook post after vacating his dormitory seat at the end of his master's exams.
An old 'Awami syndicate' of 10 to 12 people is still cornering most of nearly Tk 2,000 crore in free textbook printing work in collusion with some NCTB officials, those in the industry say.
Police stopped a long march by independent Ibtedayee madrasa teachers heading toward the Secretariat to press their demand for inclusion in the state pay scheme.
The Cabinet Division has refused to approve the creation of an assistant music teacher post in government primary schools, the education minister told parliament.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman said women's education would be made fully free up to degree level, with stipends awarded based on results.
Government primary schools have been directed to collect exam fees from students on a graded scale by class to cover the cost of holding exams, the primary and mass education secretary said.
Teachers from independent ebtedayee madrasas have begun a fast-unto-death outside the National Press Club in Dhaka, demanding swift MPO enlistment and the release of salaries from January 2026.
Five percent of secondary- and college-level students will be offered free education in the 2026-27 fiscal year, Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said while presenting the budget.
The government will set up 500 educational institutions in backward areas in the new fiscal year, Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said in the proposed 2026-27 budget.
A separate MPO policy will be framed for ibtedayee madrasas, with the education ministry directed to begin work, sources said.
The word 'algorithm', woven deeply into modern life, derives from the name of a ninth-century Persian mathematician, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi.
The 2026-27 budget proposes Tk 57,301 crore for the secondary and higher education division — about Tk 10,000 crore more than last year — within total education spending of Tk 1,36,606 crore.
Finance Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said the government aims to raise public investment in education to 5% of GDP gradually, calling education one of the sectors most damaged under 'fascism.'
The 2026-27 budget proposes Tk 1,36,606 crore for education — 2% of GDP — split across secondary and higher (Tk 57,301 crore), primary (Tk 46,737 crore) and technical and madrasa education (Tk 18,457 crore).
The 2026-27 budget proposes Tk 42,291 crore for defence — Tk 1,593 crore more than the outgoing year's revised Tk 40,502 crore — within a record Tk 9,38,000 crore budget.