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Monipur High School And College
Monipur Uchcha Vidyalaya and College (MUBC) ( bn, মনিপুর উচ্চ বিদ্যালয় ও কলেজ) is a secondary school and college in Mirpur Model Thana, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 1962 by the late Abul Kalam Azad. The school offers education from class I to class XII, and the college offers undergraduate courses in Humanities, arts, science, and commerce. The school and college are affiliated with the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) and the University of Dhaka, respectively. It is one of the most renowned institutes in the country. The school often ranks among the top of the passing rate in the board exams such as Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Junior School Certificate (JSC), and Primary Education Certificate (PSC). In 2023, the institution was accused of tax fraud and embezzlement of more than 3.5 crore BDT ($326,558). The investigation is underway. Academic results In 2007, 2008, and 2009, the school wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirpur Model Thana
Mirpur ( bn, মীরপুর/মিরপুর) is a ''thana'' of Dhaka city, Bangladesh. It is bounded by Pallabi Thana to the north, Mohammadpur Thana to the south, Kafrul to the east, and Savar Upazila to the west. History Mirpur thana was established in 1962. The thana consists of one ''union porishod'', eight wards, 11 mouzas and 86 and 20 villages. Mirpur Thana (town) area was included in Keraniganj Thana during the British period (1757 to 1947) and in Tejgaon Thana during the Pakistan period (1947 to 1971). After the Liberation War following the victory day, Mirpur was independent on 31 January 1972. Geography Mirpur is located at . It has a total area of and is situated in the north-east of Dhaka city. Demographics At the 2000 census of Bangladesh, Mirpur had a population of 1,074,232, of which males constituted 54.15% and females 45.85%. 610,270 were over the age of 18, and the average literacy rate was 68.9% (7+ years), compared to the national average of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Of Intermediate And Secondary Education, Dhaka
The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, is an autonomous organization and responsible for holding public examinations ( JSC, SSC and HSC). The board office is located at Bakshibazar, Dhaka. History Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka was established on 7 May 1921 according to the recommendation of Sadler Commission. Intermediate colleges and high schools in Dhaka city and Islamic intermediate colleges and high madrasah of greater Bengal were under control of that board. An advisory board made by the director of public education department of greater Bengal was given the authority to govern the board. Dhaka Board was dissolved in September 1947 by a government order. Its name was changed to ''East Bengal Secondary Education Board'' in 1955 and it was live till 1961. Scope of this new board was limited to secondary level education of then the East province of Pakistan and control of intermediate education was shifted to the University of Dhaka. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamal Ahmed Majumder
Kamal Ahmed Majumder (born 3 March 1950) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member from Dhaka-15 since its inception in 2009. Early life Majumder graduated with a B.A. degree. Career Majumder contested the controversial by-election in Mirpur on 3 February 1993. He lost the election to Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Sayed Muhammad Mohsin. He was arrested in August 2002 by Bangladesh Police during the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government. Amnesty International feared that he would be tortured in custody. Majumder was elected to Parliament in the 2008 Bangladeshi general election, beating Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Muhammad Hamidullah Khan. On 22 October 2013 his car was attacked with Molotov cocktails outside Mohona TV. He was elected to Parliament in the General Election 2014 as a candidate of Bangladesh Awami League from Dhaka-15. He beat his nearest rival Ekhlas Uddin Molla, an independent candidate by 26,786 vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city in the world with a population of 8.9 million residents as of 2011, and a population of over 21.7 million residents in the Greater Dhaka Area. According to a Demographia survey, Dhaka has the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world, and is popularly described as such in the news media. Dhaka is one of the major cities of South Asia and a major global Muslim-majority city. Dhaka ranks 39th in the world and 3rd in South Asia in terms of urban GDP. As part of the Bengal delta, the city is bounded by the Buriganga River, Turag River, Dhaleshwari River and Shitalakshya River. The area of Dhaka has been inhabited since the first millennium. An early modern city developed from the 17th century as a provincial capital and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently defined as any fields of study outside of professional training, mathematics, and the natural and social sciences. They use methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element—as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences;"Humanity" 2.b, ''Oxford English Dictionary'' 3rd Ed. (2003) yet, unlike the sciences, the humanities have no general history. The humanities include the studies of foreign languages, history, philosophy, language arts (literature, writing, oratory, rhetoric, poetry, etc.), performing arts ( theater, music, dance, etc.), and visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, filmmaking, etc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Curriculum And Textbook Board
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) ( bn, জাতীয় শিক্ষাক্রম ও পাঠ্যপুস্তক বোর্ড) is an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Education in Bangladesh, responsible for the development of curriculums, production and distribution of textbooks at primary and secondary education levels.Shafiul AlamNational Curriculum and Textbook Board ''Banglapedia: The national encyclopedia of Bangladesh'', Asiatic Society of Bangladesh; ''Retrieved: 2007-12-10'' All public schools and also a lot of private schools of Bangladesh follow the curricula of the NCTB. Starting in 2010, every year free books are distributed to students between Grade-1 to Grade-10 to eliminate illiteracy. These books comprise most of the curricula of the majority of Bangladeshi schools. There are two versions to each national curriculum. One is the Bengali language Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Dhaka
The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently it is the largest public research university in Bangladesh, with a student body of 46,150 and a faculty of 1,992. Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Salimullah, who played a pioneering role in establishing the university in Dhaka, donated 600 acres of land from his estate for this purpose. It has made significant contributions to the modern history of Bangladesh. After the Partition of India, it became the focal point of progressive and democratic movements in Pakistan. Its students and teachers played a central role in the rise of Bengali nationalism and the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. Notable alumni include Muhammad Yunus (winner 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, pioneer of microcredit), Natyaguru Nurul Momen (pioneer literature, theatre & cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary School Certificate
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) or Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC), Matriculation examination, is a public examination in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan conducted by educational boards for the successful completion of the secondary education exam in these countries. Students of 10th grade/class ten can appear in these. It is equivalent to GCSE in England and first two years of high schools in United States. Bangladesh Secondary School Certificate is a public examination in Bangladesh conducted by the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education under the Ministry of Education. One has to pass the JSC Examination in order to participate. SSC is held based on the books of classes 9 and 10, which are usually the same. To pass, a student has to undergo both a written and a practical exam. Students of religious and English medium streams also sit for their respective public examinations, ''Dakhil'' and O-Level, conducted by the Madrasah Education Board and Camb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior School Certificate
The Junior School Certificate (JSC) is a public examination taken by students in Bangladesh after successful completion of eight years of schooling. It is followed by the Secondary School Certificate (SSC). Before the JSC was introduced, an exam was taken in its place (then known as Madhyamik Britti or Junior Scholarship). This was a voluntary vocational exam and not mandatory. Since 2012, the JSC exam questions have consisted of multiple (between 6 and 11, of which 4 to 7 sets need to be answered) sets of four questions, each requiring the student to have knowledge, understanding, application and higher order thinking skills regarding the subject matter to solve. This system has been termed as creative (locally called ''Srijonshil'') questions. It is said that JSC was also introduced so that the poor and destitute people of the country could do well on the exam. Examinees, if they fail, are allowed to retake the exam with other regular examinees in the following year. Mark distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primary Education Certificate
The Primary Education Certificate (PEC) Examination is a national examination in Bangladesh administered by the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, and taken by all students near the end of their fifth year in primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e .... The PEC exam did not held for two years (2020 & 2022) due to the coronavirus pandemic. Later, the government announced that the test would be scrapped as a new curriculum was on the way. After 13 years, Government reintroduced scholarship exams for Class 5 students from 2022. At least 10 percent of fifth graders in every school across the country will be able to take part in the scholarship exams. Students who qualify for the talent-pool stipend get Tk 300 a month while general stipend holders get Tk 225 per m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka Education Board
The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, is an autonomous organization and responsible for holding public examinations ( JSC, SSC and HSC). The board office is located at Bakshibazar, Dhaka. History Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka was established on 7 May 1921 according to the recommendation of Sadler Commission. Intermediate colleges and high schools in Dhaka city and Islamic intermediate colleges and high madrasah of greater Bengal were under control of that board. An advisory board made by the director of public education department of greater Bengal was given the authority to govern the board. Dhaka Board was dissolved in September 1947 by a government order. Its name was changed to ''East Bengal Secondary Education Board'' in 1955 and it was live till 1961. Scope of this new board was limited to secondary level education of then the East province of Pakistan and control of intermediate education was shifted to the University of Dhaka. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Directorate Of Secondary And Higher Education
Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education () is a Bangladesh government Directorate under the Ministry of Education responsible for improving education standards and access to education. The Director General of the Directorate is Nehal Ahmed. History Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education traces its origins to the Directorate of Public Instruction, which was formed following the Wood's despatch In 1854, Sir Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control of the British East India Company, sent a formal dispatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India, suggesting a large shift to English language use within India. Sir C ... in 1854. The government of Bangladesh converted the Directorate of Public Instruction to the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education in 1981. The Directorate is responsible for 29569 educational institutes in Bangladesh. References 1981 establishments in Bangladesh Organisations based in Dhaka Government agencies of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
