Panel formed to bring parity to exams grading
May 23, 2009
The government has formed a committee to bring equality between grading and division systems, its chief said Wednesday. “We don’t want to keep [any group of students unhappy],” Maeen Uddin Khandaker, joint secretary of the education ministry who heads the committee, told bdnews24.com on Wednesday. The committee will make suggestions within three working days and meet on Sunday, he said. He said the panel was sanguine about coming up with the right set of recommendations to keep all sides happy. Steps would be taken upon the proposals made by all sitting on the committee, Khandaker said. Read more
Achievement of Expatriate Bangladeshi Researcher
May 18, 2009
Bangladeshi researcher Dr. Sabir Mirza has received an award from “American Association of Pharmaceuticals” as an appreciation to his prowess in the field of research. The event was held on 17th November 2008 at Atlanta. At present Dr. Sabir Mirza is working with crystal morphology of Engineering of Pharmaceuticals solids: Tabletting Performance Enhancement and molecular level information of drug molecules. Dr. Sabir Mirza completed his PhD from University of Helsinki (Finland) in 2007. Read more
Scholarship Opportunity for Bangladeshis at Wisconsin, Madison, USA
April 10, 2009
THE College of Agricultural and Life Sciences of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Kamaluddin and Nahar Kamal Ahmad Foundation (Ahmad family) recently signed an agreement in Madison, Wisconsin to fund an all inclusive scholarship for Bangladeshi students to study toward a PhD in Biochemistry. The scholarship intends to fund one student, every three years, if such deserving and meritorious students are available for such pursuits. In other words, the scholarship is able to fund two students concurrently, after the initial three years period. Read more
Australian National University
March 31, 2009
THE Australian National University, commonly abbreviated to ANU, is a public teaching and research university located in Canberra, Australia and has a motto of Naturam Primum Cognoscere Rerum. (Latin for ‘First, to learn the nature of things’). This university was established by an act of the Parliament of Australia on 1 August 1946, with the legislated purpose of conducting and promoting research in Australia. Today, the university is consistently ranked as the best university in Australia, and is one of only three Australian universities in the top 50 worldwide in several international surveys, including the Newsweek Top 100 and the annual Times Higher Education Supplement rankings. Read more
Children learning ‘distorted’ history
March 30, 2009
Children on their way to schools often stop in front of the “martyred freedom fighters memorial” at the entrance to the town on Nilphamari-Saidpur highway. They read the names of the great sons of the soil who sacrificed their lives for their motherland. But the freedom fighters of the district claimed names of fake freedom fighters and even heinous collaborators of Pakistan army have been inscribed on the monument constructed during the tenure of past BNP- Jamaat led government. District commander of Moktijodhya Sangsad Abdul Jalil said name of Abdul Bari who was the member of notorious ‘Mujahid force’ has been included in the list. Read more
More Bangladeshi students to get chances of edn in Japan: JICA
March 28, 2009
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Friday said more Bangladeshi students would get opportunities of higher education and research in Japan every year. JICA’s chief representative in Bangladesh Nobuca Suzuki Kiwasima made assurance while addressing a seminar on ‘Education in Medical Technology to Enhance Health Care Services in Bangladesh’ in the LGED auditorium at Agargaon here. Dr Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin MP was the chief guest at the seminar organized by JICA Alumni Association of Bangladesh. Director General of the Health Directorate Professor Shah Monir Hossain, Dr Khurshid Jahan and General Secretary of JICA Alumni Association Mohammad Izar Uddin addressed the seminar.
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BCS written tests on Apr 30
March 28, 2009
Authorities will take the 28th BCS written test in six divisions concurrently on April 30, a PID press release said Thursday. The details about exam halls and timetable would be published in newspapers later, it added.
Source: bdnews24
Teaching Critical Thinking in Bangladesh
March 26, 2009
WHAT could you, would you, and should you do if your car hits a rickshaw and injures the rickshaw-wallah? This question raises complex ethical issues in a city where angry crowds might smash your car and where there is no dependable infrastructure of lawyers and insurance companies or of police responding to traffic accidents, or of hospitals caring for impoverished rickshaw pullers.
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Genetic Engineering- the future of Food and medicine
March 4, 2009
The world population continues to increase at an explosive rate, our arable land is deteriorating, fresh water is becoming scarce and increasing environmental stresses will consistently pose serious threats to global agricultural production and food security in future years. Bioengineering or genetic engineering refers to new methods of plant breeding that permit scientists to improve food crops by introducing a copy of a gene for a specific trait (e.g., fruit softening). Read more
Ekushey Book Fair ends with record sale
March 1, 2009
The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair ended on Saturday with a record sale of books worth around Tk 20 crores. According to the Bangla Aca-demy Information Centre, the Academy earned some Tk 62 lakh by selling different kinds of books, mostly dictionaries, from this year’s fair. The number of new titles also hit a new record with 2741 books this year. Last year, covers of some 2578 new books were unveiled in the fair while only 1919 new titles hit the fair in 2007. Read more