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Rasel Sarker, Dhaka University Correspondent,
Published: 11 Feb 2021 05:04 PM BdST
Updated: 11 Feb 2021 05:04 PM BdST
Freedom fighter Aziza Rahman has taken a vaccine dose at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery arriving in a wheelchair. );
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“I took the vaccine shot not to live longer, but to keep others safe,” the 90-year-old former professor of Dhaka University’s Institute of Education and Research said after being inoculated on Thursday.
Aziza arrived at the vaccination centre in the morning accompanied by her daughter, son-in-law and a housemaid all of whom also received vaccine doses.
“I wasn’t afraid at all. I overcame fear in 1971. I still bear the marks of bullet wounds on my hands and feet. Now we are fighting against an invisible foe. The vaccine is the weapon for us to win a victory in this war,” she said.
Shahidul Islam, Senior Correspondent,
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Published: 30 Jan 2021 08:59 PM BdST
Updated: 30 Jan 2021 10:33 PM BdST
Bangladesh did not hold the HSC exams in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the results published by the government on Saturday by averaging scores of previous public tests have brought some relief to nearly 1.4 million students. );
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Experts say that the students can now prepare for the next level without anxiety.
Educationists also believe the method used in the assessment of the students without the exams has been the best option under the circumstances.
All students have passed and over 161,000 achieved GPA-5 after the government used a stop-gap system of weighting the scores of the candidates JSC and SSC exams to determine the HSC results.
Flashback in Outgoing 2020: Students bear the brunt of corona
Md Solamain Salman
# Corona throws education sector into disarray
# Over 40 million students out of classrooms
# Govt compelled to cancel PEC, JSC, HSC exams
The academic life of over 40 million students and livelihood of thousands of teachers have been badly affected in the country in the outgoing 2020 year as the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the education sector into disarray.
Since the beginning of this year, coronavirus has been upending public life, forcing the authorities to keep all educational institutions closed.
Millions of students from primary to university level have been worst affected as the traditional classroom learning has come to a complete halt due to the corona pandemic.