Several socio-cultural organisations on Wednesday joined the continued protest at the government鈥檚 decision to cancel the positions of music and physical training teachers in government primary schools, following criticisms from Islamist groups...
Bangladesh U-19 team suffered a 102-run defeat to their Afghanistan counterparts in the third of the five Youth ODIs at the Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium in Rajshahi on Wednesday...
Several socio-cultural organisations on Tuesday condemned the interim government鈥檚 decision to cancel the positions for music and physical education teachers in government primary schools in the wake of criticism by Islamist groups.
THIS is disheartening that the primary and mass education ministry has rescinded the newly established positions for music and physical training teachers in government primary schools. The decision, effected by changing the Government Primary School Teacher Recruitment Rules 2025, represents not merely a bureaucratic adjustment but a stark affront to the rights and...
Akbar Ali will lead the Bangladesh 鈥楢鈥� team in the forthcoming Asia Cup Rising Stars 2025, formerly known as the Emerging Asia Cup, as the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced a 15-member squad on Tuesday.
ONE of the most alarming crises in the education sector today is the systematic erosion in the percentage and number of trained teachers in secondary schools and madrassahs. This is occurring at a time when the number of students and the number of institutions are increasing every year. The government, however, tends to see the question of the declining number of...
The percentage and number of trained teachers in secondary schools and secondary to tertiary madrassahs have decreased over the years while the numbers of students and institutions have increased.
The assistant teachers of government primary schools on Saturday threatened to resume their movement if their demands for pay rise and promotion were not met by November 15.
Several hundred teachers and employees of different nationalised colleges across the country are receiving much-lower-than-expected retirement benefits due to the 2018 rules.
Bangladesh 鈥楢鈥� team will begin their Asian Cricket Council Rising Stars T20, formerly known as the Emerging Asia Cup, on November 15 against Hong Kong, as the fixtures of the tournament have been announced on Friday.
Police dispersed ibtedayi madrassah teachers using water cannon and hurling sound grenades to them on Wednesday in the capital Dhaka as they tried to march towards the Bangladesh Secretariat demanding nationalisation of the ibtedayi madrassahs.
Kaspersky鈥檚 Global Research and Analysis Team or GReAT has uncovered evidence linking HackingTeam successor, Memento Labs, to a new wave of cyber-espionage attacks, said a press release...
The ministry of youth and sports rewarded the Bangladesh national women鈥檚 football team with Tk 50 lakh for their maiden qualification in the AFC Women鈥檚 Asian Cup final-stage, which is scheduled to be held in Australia in March 2026...
BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Saturday said that the party would create posts for religious teachers in the country鈥檚 primary schools if voted to power...
The police arrested a madrassa teacher at Darul Hikma Hafizia Madrassa in the Mawna Crossing area of Sreepur Municipality on Friday allegedly for raping a 12-year-old boy student...
Bangladesh鈥檚 century-old paddle steamer, PS Mahsud, is set to resume service on the Dhaka鈥揃arishal river route next month, blending the country鈥檚 rich riverine heritage with tourism, officials said on Friday...
THE education system, conventionally regarded as the foundational pillar of the nation, now stands fragile and neglected. Consequently, the teachers, architects of this system, have been relegated to a class characterised by deprivation and lack of rights. In stark opposition to the legitimate, distressed pleas of this profession, the state has manifested a leviathan character...
Bangladesh volleyball team started the CAVA Cup for Men 2025 with a commanding 3-0 win over the Maldives at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium in Mirpur on Wednesday...
THIS is a good piece of news that the non-government teachers listed on the monthly pay order scheme, who had demonstrated for 10 days, beginning on October 12, to push for an increased house rent in percentage of their basic pay, have returned to classrooms after the government increased their house rent. The teachers, who demanded 20 per cent of their basic...
The Police seized a covered van of a private-run courier service loaded with 4,000 kilogram of tea leave smuggled in the country from India on early Tuesday at Kanaighat upazila in Sylhet and arrested the covered van driver...
IT IS the first day of the term and there they sit, my unwitting charges, with fingers hover like hesitant falcons over the fresh carnage of grammar exercises. To them, I am no ordinary teacher. I am the guardian of their exams fates, deciding if their essays will sing or stumble, if they unravel a poem鈥檚 secrets or merely skim its surface. But they are unaware of the peril...
THE commitment of the government to national education appears to have faltered all along as the number of teachers of English and mathematics in institutions of secondary education has decreased whilst the number of institutions and students has increased over the past 13 years. The results of secondary and higher secondary public examinations make the proposition...
After 10 days of protests, the non-government teachers and employees on the monthly pay order scheme are scheduled to return to their workplaces today after the government has conceded their main demand for house rent increase...
The number of English and mathematics teachers at the secondary-level educational institutions in the country decreased in the past 13 years amid the students鈥� poor show in these two subjects in different public examinations...
Citizens Bank organised a training on 鈥楲eadership and Team Building for Work Excellence in Banking鈥� at its training academy recently, said a press release...
Non-government teachers and employees on the monthly pay order scheme on Sunday continued their protest for the seventh day running, rejecting the government measure for increasing their house rent allowance.
Non-government teachers and employees on the monthly pay order scheme continued their hunger strike at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka for the second consecutive day on Saturday, demanding a pay increase...
Hapi Islam Talukder, while doing her dual jobs as a makeup artist and schoolteacher at a Jatrabari school in Dhaka city, gradually realised that neither of her jobs was offering her the satisfaction she looked for...
Teachers and employees under the government鈥檚 monthly pay order system on the sixth day of their protests on Friday began an indefinite hunger strike as their demand for pay rise remained unfulfilled.
Assistant teachers of government primary schools have called off their planned hunger strike after a meeting with officials from the primary and mass education ministry, where they discussed their three-point demand.
