M. Obaidul Hamid, Roland Sussex, Asaduzzaman Khan
Private tutoring in English (PT‐E), a special and important subclass of private tutoring (PT), is a common phenomenon in ESL/EFL education in many parts of the world. Nevertheless, it has received little attention in TESOL, applied linguistics, or language education research. This article investigat...
Mercy Miyang Tembon, Lucia Fort
No AccessDirections in Development - Human Development1 Feb 2013Girl's Education in the 21st CenturyGender Equality, Empowerment and GrowthAuthors/Editors: Mercy Miyang Tembon, Lucia FortMercy Miyang Tembon, Lucia Forthttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-7474-0SectionsAboutPDF (2.1 MB) ToolsAdd to fav...
Samir Ranjan Nath
Using the databases created under Education Watch, a civil society initiative to monitor primary and basic education in Bangladesh, this paper explores trends, socioeconomic differentials and cost in private supplementary tutoring among primary students and its impact on learning achievement. The ra...
M. Obaidul Hamid, Elizabeth J. Erling
Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Md. Taher Billal Khalifa
The research for this paper, the first of its nature in Bangladesh, has been carried out through desk study, document review, interview, questionnaire and observation. Earlier findings had revealed that the community perceived education to be a social and public product. Significant changes to the p...
Tahir Abbas
This article explores how South Asian parents and teachers affect the educational achievements of South Asians in schools and colleges in the city of Birmingham, England. The research undertaken for this study was principally qualitative, based on in-depth interviews with and surveys of pupils, stud...
Al Amin, Janinka Greenwood
Examinations are designed to test knowledge and skills, but in some cases they acquire a power of their own that influences curriculum and attitudes to learning and teaching and that stabilised by widely held social expectations and practices. This article reports an investigation of the role of exa...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Gyanendra Kumar Rout, Nibedita Priyadarshani
Business of state is to provide a decent life to its citizens giving a wider and increased access to the needs. In order to do so, business of state always concentrates to provide a better access to five fundamentals (that is, food, cloth, shelter, education and health) maintaining an increasing cur...
Asankha Pallegedara, Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb
Rafsan Mahmud, Mark Bray
Private supplementary tutoring has long existed in Bangladesh, as elsewhere in the world, but in recent decades has become much more visible. Much tutoring “shadows” or reproduces formal schooling as fee-based academic teaching outside school hours. This paper focuses on school factors that shape de...
Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Md. Abdur Rahman Forhad
Following the fourth target of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), education disparity is one of the graver concerns delaying substantial economic development, especially in emerging market-based nations. Despite numerous efforts to address this disparity, it has been a long-st...
Raqib Chowdhury, Mahbub Sarkar
Rafsan Mahmud
M. Obaidul Hamid, Asaduzzaman Khan, Monjurul Islam
Although research on private tutoring has gained visibility in recent years, private tutoring in English (PT-E) has not received notable attention. This paper examines students’ perceptions of PT-E in Bangladesh in terms of its necessity and helpfulness, peer pressure in PT-E participation and ethic...
Sharmistha Das, Robina Shaheen, Prithvi Shrestha, Arifa Rahman et al.
Any policy reform in education is highly effective when it is planned and implemented ‘holistically’ and yet, it is the most challenging way forward. Many countries in Asia have reformed their English language policies and syllabi in the last two decades due to the increasing value of the language w...