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128m children lost access to education
Humanitarian crises Industry Desk: By the time the COVID-19 pandemic hit its stride, multiple humanitarian emergencies had conspired to deny 128 million children access to an education. When the UN global fund, Education Cannot Wait was launched in 2016, the number of crises-affected children and adolescents missing out on schooling…
Read More »None from my family
involved in graft: DipuStaff Correspondent: Education Minister Dipu Moni has denied allegations about her relatives’ involvement in the corruption surrounding the land acquisition process for the proposed Chandpur science and technology university.“No land that belongs to me or my family was among the areas acquired for the university,” said the minister in reaction…
Read More »Students should be taught coding-programming: Dipu
Staff Correspondent: Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni yesterday said we have to be technology-friendly and efficient. That is why students need to be introduced to technology from an early age. Coding, programming should be taught from an early age.“Otherwise, they will not be able to survive in the fourth industrial…
Read More »Normal classes likely after March: Dipu
Staff Correspondent: Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni said that even though the new academic year has started from January, classes will be taken in the educational institutions as before. It will remain in force till next March.She said we will monitor the new variant of corona Omicron till next March.…
Read More »Timely free textbooks distribution uncertain
Mahfuja Mukul: School kids may not get new text books as per the schedule of first day of new academic year due to delay tenders for printing the books by the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB). But the textbook board blaming printing houses for delay in supplying books as…
Read More »Students may lose $17 tr in lifetime earnings for Covid learning loss: Report
UNB: Students now risks losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14 percent of yesterday’s global GDP, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic-related school closures, according to a new report published yesterday by the World Bank, UNESCO, and UNICEF.The new projection reveals that the impact is…
Read More »Students on streets with ‘red card’
Demand for safe roads Staff Correspondent: Students have taken to the streets again yesterday with red cards, demanding safe roads and against mismanagement and corruption in the streets.Around 20-30 students of Khilgaon Model College are protesting with red cards at the Hatirjheel police station area in Rampura Bridge on Saturday…
Read More »Writ seeks half fare in public transport for students
Court Correspondent: A writ has been filed yesterday in the High Court seeking directions to half the fares for students in all types of public transport including public and private buses, launches and trains in the country. Lawyer Yunus Ali Akand confirmed the matter yesterday.He said bus fares were increased…
Read More »Coaching centres to remain shut for 39-day
HSC exams begin on Dec 2 Staff Correspondent: All coaching centres across the country will remain shut from November 25 to January 3 ahead of the Higher Secondary Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations, said Education Minister Dipu Moni yesterday. The decision was taken at a meeting with law enforcement agencies…
Read More »New books at beginning of 2022: Dipu
Chandpur Correspondent: Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni briefing reporters while inaugurating the Sadar Upazila Muktijoddha Complex building at Baburhat area in Chandpur city yesterdaynoonEducation Minister Dr. Dipu Moni briefing reporters while inaugurating the Sadar Upazila Muktijoddha Complex building at Baburhat area in Chandpur city yesterdaynoonStudents will get new books at…
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Hotels to be converted for Covid hospitals
Hospitals overwhelmed Staff Correspondent: The government is going to rent hotels for providing treatment …
