The nation's high achievers in O- and A-level examinations including 56 who ranked among the world's top scorers in their subjects were honoured in an award ceremony by The Daily Star today.

Contrary to popular belief, coachings (private classes outside of schools and colleges) aren't just a medium to improve students' grades or ensure admission to the university their parents want them to study in.

If you have already considered pursuing a career in engineering, I'm guessing you are either entirely bonkers, or you are really proud of the way your mother says “Amar meye engineer hobe!” to the auntie next door, or you're genuinely interested in a career that lets you make and break things from scratch.

There is no cut and dried method of teaching that will guarantee a 100 percent chance of success.

Economics is a very demanding subject filled with theories, graphs and loads of math. If you love the subject despite this (or because of this), and need a change from your regular textbook, here are some pleasure reads to satisfy the economist in you.

Tutoring is generally a well-paid job with a certain degree of flexibility, which explains its popularity among students.

We all know how important standardised test scores are. They enable admissions officers to compare you with other applicants, and often act as a filter for opening applications in the first place.

Approaching the end of an undergraduate degree can be an exciting time but nothing dampens those feelings faster than an impending thesis.

Singapore's 15-year-olds take top place, outperforming their peers from 71 other countries, showing that the deliberate curricular shifts over the years to emphasise higher-order critical thinking skills have worked in moving students beyond mastering content knowledge to become problem solvers.

BRAC University students cast votes to select the members of the executive body of co-curricular activity clubs at its campus in Dhaka during the Fall Semester in 2016.

I face these questions from students at Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center's (BYLC) Office of Professional Development (OPD), which provides BYLC graduates with top class career guidance, through a world class curriculum and experienced trainers.

A classroom of grade six with sixty three students crammed into a classroom which can accommodate hardly forty people.

An increasing number of students from Bangladesh is choosing to study in China in recent years. Education cooperation is a key part of the China-Bangladesh relationship that has been recently strengthened even more after the visit of the Chinese president Xi Jinping in Bangladesh.

The online process for the first-year honours admission tests of Jahangirnagar University under 2016-17 academic session will begin on October 4.

The admission test of Cha unit under the Fine Arts faculty of Dhaka University for 2016-2017 academic sessions is scheduled to be held tomorrow.

Ever been in a state where despite studying for hours for an exam, the moment you open the exam paper, your mind goes entirely blank?

We live in a world where intelligence is tested by one's fluency in English. Even though it is mighty shallow, we can't deny its significance.

The first time you go over to your parents to tell them that you have decided to take a gap year after finishing your HSC or A Levels, you're most likely to be met with death stares.

ex-ercise, ex-es, ex-tra credit, ex-tra work, ex-treme sports (e.g. climbing up stairs), ex-plode, maths, ex-traordinary feats

In a usual Bengali second paper exam, we allocate a period of 45 minutes to an hour for writing an essay.