The Supreme Court upholds High Court verdict that maintained Dhaka University’s decision to allow an admission seeker to sit for the university entry examination only once.

TIB says it has found involvement of govt employees, coaching centres and private stakeholders in public examination question leak.

Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will begin from November 1.

The government publishes the third merit list of students aspiring to get admitted to colleges.

Finance Minister Abdul Muhith desperately wants to break out of the six percent growth trap and he seems to believe that this can be done with a larger budget.

While Bangladesh has made significant progress in terms of improving social indicators such as a higher completion rate of primary education and access to drinking water, there are regional disparities in areas such as children's nutrition, access to sanitation and maternal healthcare.

The Dhaka Education Board authorities publish the second merit list for admission in class XI for the academic session of 2015-2016.

It is no wonder that Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid is lamenting the poor budgetary allocation for his ministry, with only Tk. 4000 crore allocated for educational development purposes, while other ministries have been given Tk. 16,000 crore to realise their development objectives.

Irina Bokova, director general of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), highly appreciate Bangladesh's progress in achieving gender parity in education.

The United Nations has announced it is marking the 2015 edition of the World Day Against Child Labour with a call for the international community to invest in quality education as a key step in the fight against child employment – a scourge that consumes over one hundred million children worldwide.

Finance minister proposes raising VAT on private education which includes English medium schools and private engineering and medical colleges, for 2015-16 fiscal.

European Union announces release of €10.5 million fund for the primary education of Bangladesh through its sector budget support operation.

High Court clears way for holding a senate meeting of Chittagong University that will form a panel to elect a vice-chancellor for the institution.

The government will not prepare the list of the top 20 educational institutions under a board in any public examination from next year in a bid to curb malpractice by the institutes across the country.

In order to reduce inequality in Bangladesh, much more needs to be done to improve access to employment, health and education for the bottom half of the population.

Banning mobile phones from schools has the effect of giving pupils an extra week's education over the course of an academic year, researchers say.

The question arises, is there any scope for self-actualisation in such an environment? Do they really learn to cope with the real world from within their carefully-controlled domain?

In an unusual gesture, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with a school kid at the Education City in Jawanga in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh during his visit there.

YOUR commence-ment speaker deals with the big ideas: follow your passion, serve your community, know thyself.

Tests for nine Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams, scheduled for April 26, 27 and 28, have been pushed back to May 2, 4 and 16 respectively.