Uncertainty looms if the National Curriculum and Textbook Board will be able to distribute all textbooks among all students on the first day of 2026, following the government鈥檚 recent cancellation of a tender for printing 12.61 crore books.
THE government鈥檚 initiative to put the task of printing pre-primary and primary textbooks, which the National Curriculum and Textbook Board has so far done, at the hands of the primary and mass education ministry appears problematic. The government has drafted the amendments to the National Curriculum and Textbook Board Act 2018 to transfer the responsibility for...
An initiative to engage the primary and mass education ministry in printing and distributing free textbooks for the pre-primary- and primary-level education is advancing despite objection from National Curriculum and Textbook Board officials.
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...
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...
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...
Many primary and secondary level students across the country are going to over a month-long holiday while they have yet to get all free textbooks from the government.
Bangladesh said that it had taken measures to address some objections raised by China regarding two Bangladeshi textbooks and the map displayed on the website of the survey of Bangladesh.
Writers, researchers, academics and Islamic scholars on Wednesday stressed revisions to Islamic studies textbooks for primary- and secondary-level education...
More than half of the free textbooks meant for the students from the pre-primary level to the higher secondary level in the country are yet to be distributed among the students although the education ministry officials promised to distribute all books by today...
The primary and mass education affairs adviser, Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar, on Sunday said that all primary students would get textbooks by January...
Speakers at a seminar on Friday said that the National Curriculum and Textbook Board failed to properly incorporate the 2024 July uprising spirit in the newly revised textbooks.
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....
The proposed refined national curriculum for the next year is likely to be implemented in phases, said National Curriculum and Textbook Board officials...
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...
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...
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...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday said that the new textbook for the Class IX and X contained misleading information about the BNP and urged the government to remove the information immediately from the book.
THE 2025 academic year in Bangladesh began with a major setback as significant delays in textbook distribution disrupted classrooms nationwide. While the government introduced online textbooks as an interim solution...
Most of the students across the country are yet to get the free textbooks as till Wednesday about 27.4 per cent books had been distributed...
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...
Majorities of the students across the country did not get free textbooks on the second day of the year on Thursday...
The education adviser, Wahiduddin Mahmud, on Wednesday expressed regrets to students and their guardians for not distributing all free textbooks on the first day of this year...
The majority of the students are unlikely to get free textbooks today while the government is returning to the previous national curriculum of 2012 for this academic year.
About 70 per cent copies of the free textbooks are unlikely to be distributed among the students on the first day of 2025.
Education adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud said that ensuring the timely printing, binding, distribution, and supply of textbooks was one of the government鈥檚 top priorities...
Adviser of primary and mass education ministry professor Bidhan Ranjon Roy Poddar on Sunday said that primary level students would receive text books by January but there would be no celebration like before...
Primary and mass education adviser professor Bidhan Ranjan Roy Podder said that primary level students would receive 100 per cent textbooks in January, but there would be no celebrations before...
Bangladesh interim government on Wednesday approved a proposal for procurement of some 5,20,54,276 textbooks to be distributed free of cost among class-VIII students for the academic year 2025.
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.