Mohiuddin Alamgir

Student admission in the summer semester at most of the private universities has dropped by a staggering 50 to 80 percent, putting these higher education institutions on a razor edge.

It was a heartbreaking decision for Nargis Akter to make. Burdened with unpaid bills, she had no other choice but to put her school up for sale.

Class XI admission seekers will have to submit their online applications between August 9 and 20 in the first phase, authorities said today.

The ongoing closure of schools due to the coronavirus pandemic is increasing chances that thousands of marginalised students across the country might have to drop out and engage in child labour, warn government documents and educationists.

A section of guardians demanded 50 percent waiver of tuition fees at all English medium schools due to the ongoing coronavirus situation as the authorities are conducting online classes for their students.

The government is set to distribute 10-kilogramme rice for free to each of over one crore “ultra-poor and destitute families” ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

Colleges following the national curriculum are divided over promoting 11th-grade students to the next grade, as debates on possibility of a learning gap are ongoing, amid closure of educational institutes.

Many students from rural and poor families are not being able to access the distance learning adopted by schools due to the pandemic.

The Election Commission has decided to hold by-elections to Bogura-1 and Jashore-6 constituencies on July 14 amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has urged the government to introduce free internet packages for university students to enable them to attend online education.

Life expectancy at birth for Bangladeshis has risen to 72.6 years because of what experts said was progress made in health care and economy.

As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, causing classrooms to stay closed, online education becomes more imperative. Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) acting Vice Chancellor Professor Milan Pagon in a recent interview with The Daily Star said that online education is much more than just emailing educational material to students and he was sceptical about the ability of many Bangladeshi universities to offer proper online education.

When many guardians, either having lost their jobs or wages cut amid the coronavirus pandemic, are struggling to pay their children’s tuition fees, schools plead with them to make the payment on an urgent basis.

The University Grants Commission has urged the public universities to ensure online education for the third time to avoid possible session jams for Covid-19 shutdown.

The government has doled out a package to tide over about one lakh teachers and staffers of non-government schools and colleges that are outside the purview of the monthly pay order (MPO) scheme.

The government has taken a decision to extend pre-primary education, an important component of early childhood learning, to two years from existing one year.

The University Grants Commission is likely to urge public universities to ensure online education to minimise possible session jams, despite students’ and teachers’ consensus shifting momentum against it.

The government is going to provide financial assistance to over two lakh non-government school and college teachers and staffers, who are outside the purview of the Monthly Pay Order (MPO) scheme, aiming to minimise their financial hardship caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (OCAG) has decided to consider 640,000 general audit objections, filed from 1971-1972 to 2009-2010 fiscal year, as resolved.

The Election Commission has prepared a draft of a law with stringent rules for political parties getting registered.