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.

HSC and equivalent examinations begin peacefully throughout the country with over 10.5 lakhs examines are expected to appear in the exams.

Postponed SSC and equivalent exams of March 8 and March 10 will be held on March 27 and March 28 respectively. The exams of March 27 will begin at 9:00am, while those of March 28 at 10:00am

600 high school students in Bihar have been expelled for cheating on pressure-packed 10th grade examinations this week

Guardians of English medium school students urge the concerned authorities not to impose any hartal or blockade during the O and A-level examinations scheduled for the May-June session

The government postpones the Dakhil examinations scheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday) following extension of hartal by the BNP-led 20-party political alliance.

The government has postponed Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations scheduled for Sunday and Tuesday after the BNP-led 20-party alliance called a fresh 72-hour hartal from tomorrow.

(SSC) and its equivalent examinations scheduled for tomorrow have been postponed following extension hartal.

The government defers tomorrow’s SSC examination to March 7 (Saturday) due to the BNP-led 20-party alliance's ongoing countrywide hartal