Researchers of 40 universities and research institutes in Bangladesh are likely to face severe difficulties in carrying out research, as their subscriptions to international e-journals may have to be cancelled.
NCTB: The government needs to take a deeper look into the ills plaguing the NCTB, and ensure stern actions against the people responsible for feeding wrong information to children.
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board has been stuck in the loop of controversies centring on school textbooks with academics and some NCTB officials blaming it on the negligence of writers and editors, insufficient training and lack of serious punishment for blunders.
Prof Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and Prof Haseena Khan have expressed sadness and disappointment over the plagiarism that was found in the science textbook for class-7 an incident that drew wide criticism.
Two days after an embarrassing allegation of plagiarism on seventh-grade science textbooks was made public, the National Curriculum and Textbook Board or NCTB has admitted more errors on three separate textbooks for ninth and tenth graders.