Education Minister Nahid orders schools to refund in 7 days extra money taken from SSC candidates. Stern action awaits defaulters, he warns.

Students of an examination centre in Manikganj have been given question papers of 2014 in their first Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam yesterday.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid rules out any possibilities of question papers leakage ahead of any public examination.

Chittagong administration has directed all schools in the area to refund extra fees charged from students for registration of this year’s Secondary School Certificate tests.

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

Students from now on will have to qualify in the test examinations along with 70 percent class attendance to sit for SSC and HSC examinations.

Those who recently passed Secondary School Certificate (SSC) students will get three more days to file an application for colleges in Dhaka.

SSC pass rates rise in madrasa and technical education boards, although the general education boards' pass rate declined by 4.3pc.

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.

Shamsul Hoque Khan School and College of Demra has become the first among the top ten successful schools under Dhaka Board in this year’s SSC and equivalent examinations results, Bangla daily Prothom Alo reports.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid reiterates that the HSC and equivalent exams will begin on April 1 as per schedule

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