ACC starts quizzing printing house owners
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday started interrogating owners of different printing houses over allegations of corruption in printing books of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board...
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JCD demands removal of NCTB chairman, member
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Sunday demanded removal of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board chair and its member for textbook for their alleged connection with the ousted Awami League regime...
2023 curriculum imposed through conspiracy: NCTB
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board chair AKM Reazul Hassan said at a press conference on Tuesday that the national curriculum of 2023 was deliberately imposed on them and it was a foreign conspiracy...
All pry students to get textbooks by Jan: adviser
The primary and mass education affairs adviser, Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar, on Sunday said that all primary students would get textbooks by January...
Writ petition seeks probe into corruption allegations against NCTB chairman
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Tuesday, seeking the court to direct the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate corruption allegations against the National Curriculum and Textbook Board chairman....
Proposed refined curriculum for 2026 likely to be implemented in phases
The proposed refined national curriculum for the next year is likely to be implemented in phases, said National Curriculum and Textbook Board officials...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests on as advisers say meeting all demands impossible
Adviser to the ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs Supradip Chakma on Monday said that the government had all sympathy for the protesting national minority students but could not meet all their demands...
Technical, vocational curriculum revision should not be delayed
THE Technical Education Board, which is meant to update the technical and vocational education curriculum at certain intervals, usually five years, is reported to be going slow in updating the curriculums for a large number of courses that it oversees. The board deals with courses for diploma degrees in engineering, textile engineering, agriculture...
Attacks on national minority student protests outrageous
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...
NATIONAL MINORITY LANGUAGE GRAFFITI: 2 confronting platforms to hold demos before NCTB
Two confronting students鈥� platforms are scheduled to stage demonstrations today cordoning off the National Curriculum and Textbook Board building in the capital over removal of graffiti on the national minority groups from a textbook...
Education, given short shrift, has always been left in lurch
EDUCATION has been a happening sector in the year that has passed by, with changes in the curriculum and textbooks, which reverted to a much previous state with changes in textbooks after the August 5 political changeover. The sector has always been happening at intervals since independence. But allocation for education has always remained...
Most students yet to get free textbooks
Majorities of the students across the country did not get free textbooks on the second day of the year on Thursday...
Workshop on outcome based curriculum held at BSMMU
The Institutional Quality Assurance Cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Tuesday organised a workshop on outcome based curriculum at the university in Dhaka...
National curriculum to see more change
The national curriculum from primary to higher secondary level education is set to undergo more changes in the next two years causing uncertainties in the overall process of learning, particularly for the young learners.聽
Several crore textbooks not to reach students on January 1
At least four crore or 10 per cent of the free textbooks would not reach the students on the first day of 2025, according to the officials of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board.
Education reform commission demanded
A national dialogue titled Present and Future of Bangladesh鈥檚 Education System was held at the Tofazzal Hossain Manik Mia Hall of National Press Club in Dhaka with the aim of reforming Bangladesh鈥檚 education system, education policy and education curriculum...
Govt should not show rightist bias or weakness
THE dissolution of the textbook review and revision committee, formed on September 15, and the criticism, controversy, demands and counter-demands that led to the dissolution is concerning on a few counts. The Secondary and Higher Education Division on September 28 dissolved the 10-member committee meant to review textbooks of the...
Govt going back to exams, textbooks as per 2012 curriculum
The government has taken decision to go back to the examination-based assessment system from the current year as per the previous curriculum.
OSD professor Reazul Hassan made new NCTB chairman
The education ministry on Saturday appointed professor AKM Reazul Hassan as the chairman of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board on deputation...
Procedure for printing textbooks falls behind schedule
A concern arises that many students are unlikely to get free textbooks on the first day of 2025 as the procedure to print textbooks has already been behind the schedule...
Previous education curriculum to return
The interim government鈥檚 education adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud said that the government would return to the previous curriculum gradually as the new curriculum seemed to be not implementable in Bangladesh...
New curriculum not suspended: ministry
Education ministry officials on Saturday confirmed that a new school curriculum had not been suspended amid a confusion raised in this regard...
New assessment system for national curriculum approved
The government approved a new assessment system for the national curriculum on Monday...
Curriculum, belonging and society
RECENTLY, I was invited to present an online seminar hosted by a language education research centre at a UK university. I had the freedom to choose my topic. And I chose to talk about our ongoing research on local textbooks, varieties of English, and ideologies. This research is based on an analysis of textbooks used in Bangladesh...
Student well-being and new curriculum
THE concept of well-being has come to dominate the public and political agenda globally. It has also become almost a universal aim for education systems. Specifically, student well-being can be located at the centre of policy, curriculum, and pedagogy. It鈥檚 hard to dismiss well-being as an educational holy grail...
5-hour SSC exams from 2026
In 2026 under the new national curriculum, the Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations will carry 65 per cent 鈥榳eightage鈥� for the written part and 35 per cent weightage for the activity-based part in the summative assessment...
Two more years for madrassah students to join new curriculum
Madrassah students will have to wait for at least two more years to get their specialised textbooks under the new national curriculum that has already been introduced for general students, authorities said...
