DHAKA: Students of private universities have announced a protest program featuring an indefinite class abstention from Sunday to press their demand of cancellation of value added tax (VAT) on tuition fees.Moreover, a daylong road blockade in city will be imposed on the day.They made the

SYLHET: Finance minister AMA Muhith on Friday categorically said that the VAT (value added tax) imposed on the students of private universities will not be reduced.He further said he did not support the ongoing movement of private universities’ students demanding reduction of VAT.The

RANGPUR: The admission test for 1st year honor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) for session 2015-2016 will be held on December 6, 7 and 8.University Information Officer Mohammad Ali issued a press release in this regard on Thursday afternoon.The decision has come from a central

DHAKA: Medical (MBBS/BDS) Admission Test will be held on October 2 for all public and private medical and dental colleges under academic session 2014-2015.The decision came from a meeting, which was held at health and family planning ministry on Thursday with health minister Mohammed

DHAKA: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid asked the authorities of private universities to submit progress report by September 30 regarding their shifting to own campuses.The minister came up with instruction while exchanging views with private university authorities at University

BARISAL: Barisal Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (BSHSEB) has cancelled academic activities in five colleges as no student had passed from them in past Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination.The colleges include — Chandukhali School and College of Begati upazila

DHAKA: Malaysian education businesswoman Jess Lee has been passing busy days in Bangladesh as he came here to collect students for Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur (IUKL).But, two student consultancy firms -- Eduzone and Bangladesh Malaysia Study Center Ltd (BMSCL) -- publicized

DHAKA UNIVERSITY: The authorities of Dhaka University (DU) relaxed the required qualification of students for taking part in the admission test for first year honors courses for the academic year 2015-16.The authorities came up with the decision from a general meeting, chaired by DU

DHAKA: Admission tests for first year honors courses at Dhaka University for the academic year 2015-16 will start from October 30.Meanwhile, distribution of application forms for the admission tests will start from August 24 and will continue till September 10.Admission test of ‘K’

DHAKA: The preliminary examination for Assistant Thana Education Officer (ATEO) post under primary education directorate will be held on August 21.A Public Service Commission (PSC) notification issued on Wednesday said that the 1-hour examination will begin at 10:00am on the day in

DHAKA: Primary and Ebtedayee terminal examinations for class V students of general and madrasa educations will be held from November 22 to 29 across country.Primary and mass education ministry public relations officer (PRO) Rabindranath Roy confirmed the matter to banglanews.He further

DHAKA: Lecturer Ruhul Amin Khandakar of Jahangirnagar University has been jailed for three years for making derogatory remarks about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook.Dhaka Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Nazmul Haq Shamol passed the order on Wednesday and asked to serve six

DHAKA: The Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will begin on November 1.The exams will continue till November 18.The decision was made at a meeting with minister Nurul Islam Nahid in the chair at the education ministry on Monday.Public

DHAKA: Public Service Commission (PSC) on Monday came up with the permission to use calculator in 10 compulsory subjects in the written exams of 35th BCS.The subjects include: mathematical logic, mathematics, applied mathematics, physics, applied physics, statistics, accounting, computer

DHAKA: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid criticized Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) for making remarks without knowing the preparation and distribution processes of question paper.He made the remark while publishing results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and

DHAKA: The High Court issued a rule upon the government asking to explain within three weeks why imposing 7.5 percent VAT on private universities would not be declared illegal.The bench comprising Justice Sheikh Hasan Arif and Justice JN Deb Chowdhury issued the rule Sunday after primary

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday blamed BNP-Jamaat for low pass rate in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations. After handing over the results to head of education boards, the premier said, “The pass rate could be high if BNP-Jamaat had not carried out

DHAKA: The results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations have been published Sunday with an overall pass percentage of 69.60, which is 8.73 percent lower than the previous year.This year's results also witnessed a fall of GPA-5 scorers, with a total of

DHAKA: Results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be published on Sunday.As per tradition, education minister Nurul Islam Nahid along with chairmen of all education boards will hand over copies of the results to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the

RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY (RU): Rajshahi University (RU) Shikkhak Samity announced to go for work abstention and sit-ins on Sunday (August 9) demanding re-fix of 8th National Pay Scale and protesting the devaluation of university teachers’.The decision was taken from the general meeting of