A municipal worker in protective gear disinfects a street during the coronavirus disease outbreak in Madrid, Spain.

25 Mar 2020, 12:00 am0

Rethink so many public exams at school level

THE school education system in Bangladesh is overburdened with public examinations, one that is unique in the world. Firstly, our educational system seriously lacks skilled or semi skilled teachers and other logistics. In this background the experiments with public exams at Class V is not only unprecedented, it has made the system work like an overloaded donkey which is going nowhere. A recent study by World Bank (WB) found it is imperative for Bangladesh to rationalize the number of public...

11 Mar 2014, 12:00 am