ADB for placing education in building climate resilience

Governments in Asia and the Pacific must invest in education and training to comprehensively develop climate literacy and green skills needed for low-carbon economies. A new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) suggests that education systems and nationally determined contributions (NDCs) have not yet caught up with the human development

Education either makes us or breaks us

There is a fork in the road before us. We have to choose who we are as human beings and as a human family. Do we break humanity or do we make it? As I write, the already staggering number of 224 million children and adolescents denied their right to quality

Education paying highest cost for ongoing climate crisis

It is a global catastrophe of astounding proportions that millions of children are on the run today, forcibly displaced from their homes. As conflict and climate change increasingly become the most pressing challenges facing the world now, the number of displaced children has doubled in the last decade alone, reaching

Daffodil Education Net holds Daffodil Education Expo

2 day long (17-18 September 2023) "Daffodil Education Expo 2023" began Sunday at Daffodil Plaza in Dhanmondi of the capital under the initiative of Daffodil Education Network, a press release said on Sunday. With 29 educational institutions of the daffodil family, this event expo is being organized with the entire

UK to invest £54.5m for girls education in Bangladesh

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke has said they are investing up to £54.5 million in the country over eight years to improve education outcomes for children, with a particular focus on girls. "I wholly believe that sport is integral to a child's education, and today we are proud to

Transform education to build Smart Bangladesh: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday underlined the need for diversifying the education system for transforming the country into Smart Bangladesh by 2041. "We need smart skilled manpower, smart economy, smart government and smart society. We want to build Bangladesh this way. The utmost need is to diversify the education system,"

Tk 88,162cr proposed for education

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal Thursday proposed an allocation of Taka 88,162 crore for education sector in the national budget for 2023-24 fiscal year (FY), which was Taka 81,449 crore in the revised budget of FY 2022-23. Primary and mass education got Taka 34,722 crore, Taka 2931 crore more compared to

Focus on job-oriented education for employment: President

President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Monday asked the country's universities to focus more on job-oriented education and research to cater to the need of the employment market. He said this when Jatiya Kabi Nazrul Islam University Vice-Chancellor Professor Soumitra Sekhar and acting Vice-Chancellor of BRAC University Syed Mahfuzul Aziz met with him

Mahathera  gets Education Watch Award

Buddhist monk Ven. Prajnananda Mahathera, received the Education Watch Award for contribution to education and social reform on 9 March 2023, a press release said Saturday. The award was given at a casual ceremony to mark the 16th anniversary of the education magazine ‘Education Watch’.  Buddhist monk Prajnananda Mahathera has been working