High Court directs government to appoint around 10,000 qualified candidates as teachers to registered private primary schools within 60 days.

Computers do not noticeably improve school pupils' academic results and can even hamper performance.

Government scraps 7.5 percent VAT on private universities and medical colleges’ tuition fees in face of mass student protests. The decision has been announced in a notice issued from the finance ministry.

Students pursue mass protests in Dhaka and put road blockades along key points in the capital, severely disrupting traffic in strike against 7.5 percent VAT on private university tuition fees. They say protests will continue until the VAT is withdrawn.

Agitating private university students have blockaded Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar in continued demonstration against the 7.5 percent VAT.

Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh (APUB) calls upon the government to reconsider its decision to impose VAT on the universities.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith says the private university students will not have to pay any VAT.

East West University students clash with police during demonstration protesting VAT on tuition fees. Badda-Rampura road blockaded for half-an-hour.

Public university teachers call a strike for September 8 across all state-run universities demanding revision of the proposed 8th national pay scale and a separate one for them.

Prof Zafar Iqbal says he will not press for punishment of the Bangladesh Chhatra League activists over attack on SUST teachers.

Bangladesh Chhatra League attack a teachers’ demonstration demanding vice-chancellor’s resignation at Shahjalal University in Sylhet.

Education is both a human right in itself and an indispensable means of realising other human rights.

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.