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Exchanging ideas for a change

Exchanging ideas for a change

FE Education Desk 2021-08-12 00:00:00

BUP Global Affairs Council (BUPGAC), a club of Bangladesh University of Professionals, has launched an event for the youths 'EiFAC 2.0: Exchanging ideas for a change'. The event aims to enhance the an...

Event to help students cope with e-learning

Event to help students cope with e-learning

FE Education Desk 2021-08-12 00:00:00

With an aim to update the coping capacity among youths in the light of the up-to-date educational system, Youth School for Social Entrepreneurs (YSSE) is going to launch an educational event in Bangla...

Fear of missing out on productive activities

Fear of missing out on productive activities

Mohammad Saiful Islam 2021-08-12 00:00:00

In the year 1996, a certain Dr Dan Herman from the USA coined a term -- 'Fear Of Missing Out' or FOMO. The term has ever since been used frequently to measure human experience in varied purposes, espe...

Essay— key factor in selection process

Essay— key factor in selection process

Shubhashish Chakraborty Turjoy 2021-08-12 00:00:00

In a country where studying in public universities is affordable to students from all financial backgrounds, paying hundreds and thousands of dollars for a college degree may not seem pragmatic. That...

Open educational resources policy can help ensure quality education, says UGC

Open educational resources policy can help ensure quality education, says UGC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-08-10 12:59:03

Institutional Open Educational Resources (OER) and the OER platform will play a supportive role in ensuring quality higher education in the country, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has said....

IDB, Bloomberg launch financial education programme in Bangaldesh, eight other countries

IDB, Bloomberg launch financial education programme in Bangaldesh, eight other countries

UNB 2021-08-05 20:45:21

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and Bloomberg LP will work together to deliver a financial education programme for university students in nine countries in Asia and Africa. The nine IDB member c...

BYLC Youth Leadership Summit 2021 kicks off

BYLC Youth Leadership Summit 2021 kicks off

FE Online Report 2021-08-05 13:03:48

Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC) commenced its four-day-long Youth Leadership Summit 2021 on Wednesday. The summit aims to facilitate an intergenerational dialogue on issues and challenges t...

A generation's campus account

A generation's campus account

Khawaza Main Uddin 2021-08-05 00:00:00

Thirty three years ago, we began a new life at Dhaka University. We lived in a romanticised atmosphere where, one would believe, nothing is impossible in life and society. The challenge was to prove t...

Friendship beyond boundaries

Friendship beyond boundaries

Fabiha Maimuna 2021-08-05 00:00:00

Friendship can mean that sweet smell of childhood memories which turns into sighs in adulthood; that excitement to eat something outside together as soon as the school bell rings, that long wait for o...

Scholarship, or financial aid?

Scholarship, or financial aid?

Shubhashish Chakraborty Turjoy 2021-08-05 00:00:00

One of the biggest issues that almost all applicants face is the financial factor while applying to universities abroad. Given the tuition fees, living costs and other expenses of most universities, i...

Health science researcher conducts free online course

Health science researcher conducts free online course

  FE Education Desk 2021-07-31 17:18:17

With the aim of promoting and strengthening training in health research in Bangladesh, Dr Md Shajedur Rahman Shawon, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health, Univ...

Discussion on preventing teen gang-culture

Discussion on preventing teen gang-culture

Md Zahidur Rabbi 2021-07-30 18:25:14

The Department of Sociology under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) arranged a webinar titled, ‘Rising Teen Gang-Culture and Violence...

KOICA grants Master’s Scholarship to Bangladeshi govt, non-govt officials

KOICA grants Master’s Scholarship to Bangladeshi govt, non-govt officials

-- 2021-07-29 18:19:43

Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in collaboration with the government of Bangladesh and NGO Affairs Bureau granted total 11 government and non-government officials master’s scholar...

Choosing your dream institution

Choosing your dream institution

Shubhashish Chakraborty Turjoy 2021-07-29 00:23:58

Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Yale, Stanford-- for many these are not just universities but audacious dreams. Very few will pass on the opportunity to study at such institutions, but the scarcity of resources...

Methodical approach crucial for admission to universities worldwide

Methodical approach crucial for admission to universities worldwide

Mofrad Muntasir 2021-07-29 00:00:00

During one of those slow weekend afternoons in 2014, this writer was contemplating which business schools to pursue. INSEAD (Institut Européend' Administration des Affaires) was one of the top...

SSC-HSC assignments: Questions learners might ask

SSC-HSC assignments: Questions learners might ask

Sirajum Munira Tuli 2021-07-29 00:00:00

It has been about a year and a half since educational institutions were closed. In the meantime, 'New Normal' has become much more normal. Students are just about to get used to assignment-based studi...

Cultural Classicists Carnival launched

Cultural Classicists Carnival launched

FE Education Desk 2021-07-29 00:00:00

'Goodluck Presents 3rd International Cultural Classicists Carnival- powered by ELBA Bangladesh,' was officially launched on July 27, 2021. This international event will have 16 segments including sing...

SSC, HSC examinations to be held on three subjects

SSC, HSC examinations to be held on three subjects

BSS 2021-07-26 20:56:26

The Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Higher Secondary Certificates (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of this year will be held this year on three elective subjects of each group and with a redu...

Distribution of student assignments suspended

Distribution of student assignments suspended

-- 2021-07-25 16:01:55

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has suspended the distribution of student assignments to students from class 6 to class 9 and 2022 SSC examinees due to the ‘strictest lockdown&...

Miller congratulates eight Bangladeshi CCI programme participants

Miller congratulates eight Bangladeshi CCI programme participants

UNB 2021-07-18 21:32:29

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl Miller has congratulated eight Bangladeshi undergraduate students for being selected to participate in the US State Department-funded Community College Initiative (CCI...

ISD offers full admission waiver

ISD offers full admission waiver

FE Education Desk 2021-07-15 00:00:00

As the Covid-19 pandemic imposed barriers to the country's economic growth, many families are struggling to meet their financial requirements. The cost of admission fees will create newdifficulties, w...

Struggles of home tuition

Struggles of home tuition

Shafin Saif 2021-07-15 00:00:00

Young men, may be aged between 18 to 24, putting posters 'Tuition Wanted'- this is a common sight in Dhaka's busy areas. Although Dhaka has thousands of coaching centres to cater to increasing demand,...

Women thrive with positive encouragement

Women thrive with positive encouragement

Monowara Akhter Julee 2021-07-15 00:00:00

Negotiation is one of the hottest topics in today's business table as salary negotiations are getting more common nowadays than ever. However, there are a lot of differences between men and women in t...

Freelancing: Skills first, then comes taking orders

Freelancing: Skills first, then comes taking orders

Fabiha Maimuna 2021-07-15 00:00:00

Freelancing, which means working for companies or individuals in short contracts with desired time and payment, is not an unfamiliar concept anymore. It is possible to earn quite a handsome amount by...

Many countries not implementing remedial programmes after school closures, finds study

Many countries not implementing remedial programmes after school closures, finds study

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-07-13 18:46:42

Around one in three countries, where schools are or have been closed due to Covid-19 pandemic, are not implementing any remedial programmes for the students as yet, according to a UNESCO, UNICEF, Worl...

UNICEF urges safe school reopening to avoid generational catastrophe

UNICEF urges safe school reopening to avoid generational catastrophe

-- 2021-07-12 15:16:28

Governments and decisionmakers should prioritise the safe reopening of schools to avoid a generational catastrophe in education, urged UNICEF. It has been 18 months since the COVID-19 outbreak starte...

Bangladeshi youth receives Diana Award 2021

Bangladeshi youth receives Diana Award 2021

 Fabiha Maimuna 2021-07-11 19:13:23

Sagar Mazumder, a Bangladeshi graduate, receives the ‘Diana Award 2021’ along with 18 other changemakers from Bangladesh. He gets honoured by this prestigious international award for youth...

Youth Learning research through workshop

Youth Learning research through workshop

Mohammed Imrul Hasan   2021-07-10 19:48:37

For anyone with a desire to absorb knowledge while making a successful career, research is crucial, especially for the youth. However, youths in Bangladesh show little interest in research related car...

DU to hold admission tests for seven colleges in October

DU to hold admission tests for seven colleges in October

-- 2021-07-10 17:35:01

Dhaka University will hold first-year undergraduate admission examinations for the 2020-21 academic year for the seven affiliate colleges in the first week of October. Prospective students can apply...

Balancing part-time job with academics

Balancing part-time job with academics

Fabiha Maimuna 2021-07-08 00:00:00

Finding a work-life balance has never been easy for anyone. And for students doing jobs alongside their education, it is very easy to lose track of either academics or job tasks, or at worse, both. It...