The government on Friday postponed this year’s Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations, scheduled to begin on June 19, due to the worsening flood situation.
A press release, issued by the education ministry on the day, said that due to worsening flood situation SSC general, SSC vocational and Dakhil examinations under all boards are being suspended.
The changed schedule of the examinations will be given later, the release added.
The government decision came
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Policy against corporal punishment on cards
Mushfique Wadud
The education ministry is working out a policy to give guidelines for teachers to stop corporal punishment in schools and madrassahs, the education secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury told New Age on Friday.
‘We have already drafted the policy and it is now in the final stages,’ he said as he was asked about the government’s action against corporal punishment in the wake of High Court ruling in this