education & Career

MNA Education Desk: A total of 107 students from different departments of Dhaka University (DU) have been awarded ‘The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award’ for their success in various extra-curricular activities. Among them, 30 students received Silver Awards while 77 others Bronze Awards, a DU press release said. DU vice-chancellor professor Md Akhtaruzzaman distributed certificates among the students as the chief guest at a function held at the RC Majumder Auditorium of the university on 22 November. Director of Students Counselling and Guidance Office of DU Mahjabeen Haque presided over the function. Chairman of executive committee of the Duke of ...

MNA Education desk: The second release slip of online application into first-year honours courses of 2018-19 academic session at different colleges under National University (NU) will begin on 28 November. The admission process will continue till 12 midnight, an official release said Sunday. The candidates, who do not qualify in the merit list or do not get admitted, will be eligible for applying in the application. The detailed information regarding online application will be available on www.nu.ac.bd/admission.

MNA Education Desk: Gold Bangladesh, a debate organization of Rajshahi University (RU), organized a 2-daylong 4th national debate fest, with the vision of preparing knowledge and leadership skills based new generation, at the university Teachers Students Center (TSC). RU pro-vice-chancellor Prof Dr Ananda Kumar Saha inaugurated the program as chief guest. After that colorful rally was started on the campus and marching deferent roads that terminated in front of university’s Kazi Nazrul Islam auditorium. Besides, student advisor Prof Dr Laila Arjuman Banu, former student advisor Prof Dr Golam Sattar Tipu, were present as special guests. Sohrab Hossain, president of “Gold ...

MNA Education Desk: The results of the freshly held “Gha” unit admission test of Dhaka University were published on Monday afternoon (Nov 19) where 61.1 percent students passed. DU authorities retook the admission test of first-year honors programs for the 2018-19 academic sessions on November 16. A total of 16,181 students, who obtained pass marks in the previous test held on October 12, took part in the examination. Of them, 9,886 students secured the pass mark. To get the full results of the test, students can go to admission.eis.du.ac.bd, according to a press release issued by the public relations office ...

MNA Education Desk: The authorities of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia will observe ‘University Day’ on 24 November on its 39th founding anniversary, reported news agency. The university day is supposed to be observed on 22 November as the university started its journey on that day in 1979. But this year, 22 November is weekly holy day of the university. So the authorities have taken decision to observe the day on 24 November instead of 22 November. On the occasion, an elaborate programme has been chalked out. The programmes include hoisting national and university flags in front of the university ...

MNA Education Desk: Primary School Certificate (PSC) and Ebtedayee Examinations-2018 began on Sunday across the country with the participation of 30,95,123 examinees. The examinations started around 10am, reported news agency. As many as 27,77,270 examinees are appearing for PSC examinations while 3,17,853 students are participating in Ebtedayee examinations this year. Among the PSC examinees, 12,78,742 are male and 14,98,528 female while 3,17,853 students including 1,66,814 male candidates will appear in the Ebtedayee examinees examination. The examinations will continue till November 26. The authorities concerned have taken adequate security measures with taking maximum privacy to check question paper leakage. Special initiatives ...

MNA Education Desk: The ‘Gha’ unit re-test for admission into first year honours courses under the Social Science faculty for 2018-19 academic session of Dhaka University (DU) was held on Friday, reports news agency. The one-hour test was held from 3:00pm to 4:00pm at 19 centres on the university campus. A total of 18,463 students who passed the admission test held on 12 October sat for the retake against 1,615 seats. DU vice-chancellor professor Md Akhtaruzzaman, pro-VC Muhammad Samad, treasurer Md Kamal Uddin, dean of the Social Science faculty and Coordinator of ‘Gha’ unit admission test professor Sadeka Halim and ...

MNA Education Desk: The two-day long ‘Jatiya Nabanna Utsab’ kicked off on Thursday at Bakultala of the Fine Arts Faculty of Dhaka University (DU) as part of the countrywide celebrations with this year’s theme ‘Esho Mili Shobe Nabanyer Utshobe’. Jatiya Nabanna Utsab Udjapan Parishad, the celebration committee of the festival, chalked out different day-long cultural activities including Folk songs, Lalon giti, Tagore song and dance to welcome the first day of Bengali month Agrahayan. Eminent Cultural personality Ramendra Majumder officially inaugurated the cultural programme around 7:00 am. Poets, painters, musicians, bauls and people from all walks of life joined together ...

MNA Education Desk: The government has merged two cadres of the civil administration — admin and economic – with a view to ensuring a more dynamic, coordinated and people-friendly administrative system. The public administration ministry issued a gazette notification on Tuesday in this regard. As per the notification, all the posts and manpower of the Bangladesh Civil Service (admin) and BCS (economic) cadres will be considered as BCS (admin) cadre.

MNA Education Desk: The Business Club of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) organized a seminar on ‘Meet the Corporate Ambassadors of BUBT’ at the international conference hall, main campus, Dhaka. BUBT Vice-Chancellor Prof Md Abu Saleh was the chief guest of the seminar while Student Affairs adviser Prof Mian Lutfar Rahman was the special guest. The Program was presided over by the Business faculty dean Prof Dr Syed Masud Husain. Md Aslam Uddin, acting chairman of Marketing and Advisor department, BUBT Business Club, delivered the welcome speech. AHM Azmal Hosain, president, BUBT Alumni Association and joint Registrar, spoke ...

MNA Education Desk: Application form of Honors 4th year (BA, BSS, BBA, BSc.) under National University (NU) will be started at the online from 11th Nov, 2018 and continued to 6th December, 2018., reported new agency. All other information in this respect will be available in NU web site (www.nubd.info/honours). Details schedule of the examination and other information will inform at NU web site later on.

MNA Education Desk: The undergraduate admission test of Dhaka University (DU) affiliated seven colleges for 2018-19 academic year will start on 9 November, reported news agency. The admission test for science unit will be held on 9 November at 3:00pm, said a DU press release. In this Unit, a total of 31,804 admission seekers applied against 6,550 seats. The test will be held in 12 centres – Government Titumir College, Government Bangla College, Kabi Nazrul Government College, Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College, Begum Badrunnessa Government Women’s College, Dhaka College, Eden Women’s College, Udayan High School, Dr. Shahidullah College, Home Economics College, ...

MNA Career & Education Desk: The written examination for recruitment to the post of officer (cash) of three state-owned banks – Sonali Bank, Bangladesh Krishi Bank and Bangladesh Development Bank were rescheduled. The written examination will now take place from 3pm-5pm on November 16 instead of November 9, said a Bangladesh Bank press release on Tuesday.

MNA Education Desk: The admission tests of ‘A’ and ‘B’ units for the first year Honours courses of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia held peacefully amid tight securities on Sunday. A total of 1,996 candidates were contesting against 240 seats at ‘A’ unit under theology faculty and 21,208 candidates were contesting against 1,035 seats at ‘B’ unit under humanities and social sciences faculty, acting registrar of the university SM Abdul Latif said. The admission test of A-unit was held at the 1st shift around 9.30am to 10.30am while the test of B-unit was held at 2nd, 3rd and 4th shifts ...

MNA Education Desk: The Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations of November 4 have been rescheduled for November 9. Professor Ziaul Haque, chairman of the Dhaka Education Board, confirmed the matter on Saturday, reports news agency. The English examinations for regular JSC students, English 1st paper for irregular students, and Arabic 2nd paper for JDC students will begin at 9am on Friday. The JSC and JDC examinations began across the country, on Thursday, with the participation of 2,670,333 students.

MNA Education Desk: A total of 26,70,333 examinees are expected to participate this year’s Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations which began on Thursday, reported news agency. The examinations started around 10am across the country. Students from 29,677 educational institutions appeared for the examinations at 2,903centres across the country. A total of 22,67,343 students –10,43,752 boys and 12,23,591 girls –sat for the JSC examination, while 4,02,990 examinees — 179,980 boys and 2,23,010 girls –for the JDC examination, raising the total to 26,70,333. The JSC examinations will end on November 15 while JDC on November 14.

MNA Education Desk: The results of the first-year honors admission test of Rajshahi University (RU) ‘E’ unit (Social Science and Law Faculties and Education and Research Institute) under the 2018-2019 academic session were published on Monday. A total of 3,480 candidates out of 32, 000 were selected for viva-voce of the test. Candidates have also been asked to fill their subject choice form through online from 5 November to 15 November. Other details will be available at the university website: www.ru.ac.bd.

MNA Education Desk: Milestone College organized a human chain and festoon show programme to increase public awareness on road safety. This programme was held in front of the administrative building of the college on Oct 22, 2018. Principal of Milestone college (uttara campus) Lt. Colonel M Kamaluddin Bhuiyan (retd) was present as special guest. Milestone vice-principal Mizanur Rahman Khan, education director Prof Muhammad Shahjahan Hossain, Lt. Commander F Karim (retd) and the administrative director Md Masud Alam, were present at the public awareness programme. During this time, Milestone students carried festoons containing slogans on road safety that slogan is useful ...

MNA Education Desk: The admission test of ‘Gha’ (D) unit for entry to Dhaka University will be held again on 16 November (Friday), reported news agency. A total of 18,463 students who passed the admission test held on 12 October would be eligible to sit for this exam which would be held from 3:00pm to 4:00pm. Fourteen images of handwritten question papers of the admission test were spread on social media around 9:17am on the exam day, 43 minutes prior to the beginning of the exam on 12 October. After scrutinising the images and the original question paper provided at ...

MNA Education Desk: Admission seekers, who have passed Dhaka University (DU) ‘Gha’ unit test, will have to appear for the exam again, reported news agency. The vice-chancellor of the university announced the decision on Tuesday. The step came following allegations of question papers leaks that sparked off protests and legal battle in the higher court. DU vice chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman attributed the decision to the deans’ committee that discussed the issue at 12:30pm Tuesday. On 12 October, more than 100,000 admission seekers sat for the test to secure a position out of 1,540 seats up for grab. On 16 October, ...

MNA Education Desk: Admission test for the first year BSc Engineering courses in Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) under its 2018-19 academic sessions was held on Sunday. Among the applicants, a total of 8,884 students were scrutinised for the entry test on basis of their results obtained in SSC and HSC examinations, reported news agency. They said about 85 per cent of that scrutiny took part in Sunday’s test in two groups. The admission test was held for 1,235 seats in 14 departments of the university this year. Result of the test will be published on 31 October ...

MNA Education Desk: The admission test for the first year honours courses in 2018-19 academic session of Rajshahi University (RU) will be held on 22 and 23 October, reports news agency. A total of 88,543 students will appear in the entry test under five units, which are – A unit (Arts and Fine arts faculty), B unit (Business Studies and Business Administration Institute), C unit (comprises of Science and Engineering Faculties), D unit (Life and Earth Science Faculties) and E unit (Law and Social Science Faculties and Education and Research Institute). The candidates will have to sit for 100 marks ...

MNA Education Desk: Controversy surfaced centring the results of Dhaka University (DU) ‘Gha’ unit (combined unit) entry test marred by question paper leak allegation acknowledged by the university authority. Anomalies surfaced in pass rate of the test which were published on Tuesday as the tally reach in highest point in last 20 years breaking all the records of the past as some student secured records marks, claimed university students. In an analysis, it is shown that 26.21 percent students secured pass mark in 2018-19 academic sessions whereas it was 14.35 pc in 2017-18, 9.83 pc in 2016-17, 9.91 in 2015-16 ...

MNA Education Desk: Dhaka University authorities have postponed the Gha unit admission test results after an allegation of question paper leak, reported news agency. The university authorities issued a press release in this regard on Monday. “Inconvenience regretted! Further course of action regarding the issue will be announced at a pres conference later,” the release said. However, the entry test for ‘Gha’ unit was held last Friday (October 12).  Following the exam, allegations surfaced over question paper leak. Detective Branch (DB) of police detained 6 suspected people in connection with the question paper leak incident. Later, a case was filed ...

MNA Education Desk: The ‘5th Math Olympiad-2018’ organised by Jahangirnagar University Science Club (JUSC) was held on the campus, reported news agency. Director of Wazed Miah Science Research Centre and also the adviser of JUSC, professor Khabir Uddin inaugurated the contest with the slogan, ‘Ganit Niye Bhabbe Joto, Shanito Hobe Buddhi Toto’ on the premises of JU School and College in the morning. Addressing the inaugural session, professor Khabir Uddin said that “Mathematics is the mother of all sciences. One’s mental ability and creativity increase with the practice of mathematics.” The prize-giving ceremony of the contest will be held on ...

MNA Education Desk: The government has nationalized 13 more secondary schools of the country. The Education Ministry’s Secondary and Higher Education Department issued a notification to this effect. Government is nationalizing a secondary school and a college in the upazilas that do not have government secondary schools and colleges, the notification also said. Rangamati Naniarchar Model High School and Barkal Model High School, Khagrachari Guimara Model High School, TA Faruk School and College of Bagerhat and Kaunia Mofazzal Hossain Model High School of Rangpur have been nationalized. Keshabpur Pilot Model Secondary School in Jessore, Sanghati Pilot Model Secondary School in ...

MNA Education Desk: The entry test result of ‘Cha’ unit under the fine arts faculty of Dhaka University for the academic session 2018-19 has been published with only 19.45 percent pass rate. DU Vice-Chancellor Professor Akhtaruzzaman formally published the result from university’s central admission office at 1:00 pm on Monday noon. The admission test was held on September 15 and the drawing test was held on Sep 22. A total of 13,681 students appeared for the examination. Of them, 1,566 students passed the test. Later only 269 of them passed the drawing test against 135 seats. Details of the result ...