Education

The ongoing war in Ukraine has disrupted education for more than five million children, UNICEF warned today, calling for increased international support to ensure children do not fall further behind. The impact of 11 months of...

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by Bangladesh Open University (BOU) and Columbia University (CU), New York, with the intention of fostering academic programs and cross-disciplinary research collaboration, particularly in the area of climate change...

Due to the global pandemic and rising education costs, many families are now in debt solely to pay for their children’s education. According to a news statement from BRAC issued here today, costs including tuition, private...

Today, on January 1st, 2023, students in primary and secondary education received brand-new textbooks at no cost and participated in a nationwide “book festival.” Dr. Dipu Moni, the education minister, participated in the secondary level “book...

Graduation ceremony of the 5th cohort of primary teachers under the “Training of Master Trainers in English” (TMTE) project – a collaboration between the British Council and Directorate of Primary Education – was held recently at...

An activist reported that a small group of Afghan women protested defiantly against a Taliban decree barring them from universities on Thursday in Kabul, and that several of them were detained. The Taliban’s minister of higher...

UNICEF report released yesterday reveals stagnation in access to digital learning made during the COVID-19 pandemic, as one-third of nationally developed platforms have entirely shutdown, are outdated, or no longer fully functional, limiting learning approaches to...

The British Council has recently announced the official global launch of Alumni UK, a global network of international UK higher education alumni, at the opening reception of its Going Global Asia Pacific 2022 conference in Singapore....

To equip the country’s insurance sector with more professional actuaries, MetLife Bangladesh is providing scholarships to undergraduate students aspiring to become actuaries through its flagship “Professional Actuarial Study Scholarship” program. This is the only private-sector scholarship...

Delhi Public School Dhaka (DPS STS) has recently arranged an art workshop for its primary students, enabling the future artistes to mingle with the workshop’s Chief Guest Hashem Khan, and learn from the legend. The workshop...