Education
Things to consider when choosing a minor specialisation
Your minor specialisation should be aligned with your professional and personal goals.
Anime music helped me study for A levels. Here’s how
I repeated the process throughout what time was left, playing a different tune for every question paper.
Critical thinking in our curriculum: Too much or too little?
Critical thinking has always been emphasised heavily in education and with good reason.
Why we should include philosophy in our curriculum
As more students opt for STEM subjects for its financial prospects, the importance of liberal arts is shrinking.
The case for studying law
The word “lawyer” might invoke certain scenes and images in our minds.
What it takes to get into DU A unit
Dhaka University’s A unit is the path that leads to studying engineering, pure science, life science, etc.
How Dhaka University feels without street vendors
This decision has altered the campus experience for students.
A guide to applying for undergraduate programs in the United States
Applying to universities in the United States is a confusing, exhausting, and painful experience.
Teaching Business Ethics with Comic Books
ULAB School of Business took the initiative to conduct a seminar and workshop on business ethics which was unique in nature and to the best of knowledge first of its kind in Bangladesh.
The Curious Case of HSC Result Trends
For the past few years, board exams in Bangladesh followed a common trend: each year there was a higher passing and GPA 5 rate than the year before.
HSC results tomorrow
The results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will be published tomorrow.
British schoolgirl has higher IQ score than Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking
Nicole Barr, a 12-year-old from Essex in England scores a 162 on her Mensa IQ test — that's two points higher than what Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking scored, reports the Mashable.
Switching Academic Goals
Commerce or Science? When choosing subjects for our first board exams, and consequently our future careers, are we really confined to those binary alternatives?
KolpoKoushol: A Knowledge Initiative
The World Bank's Knowledge Economic Index ranks innovation in Bangladesh at 191 and shows a long and winding road ahead for innovation and technology here.
Using Proper Grammar
First rule of social media: use proper grammar. Second rule of social media: use proper grammar.
2nd merit list for class XI admission published
The Dhaka Education Board authorities publish the second merit list for admission in class XI for the academic session of 2015-2016.
Strict School Survival Guide
It's no secret that schools are a huge part of our lives. We spend a large chunk of the day there and while you're still in school, the way your school does things will have a large bearing on how often you smile in a day.