Bangladesh
594,113 students failed, and about 422,000 of them failed only one or two subjects
For most of the students who did not pass today, the outcome is one or two papers to re-sit — not a lost year. The review window opens on 1…
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Bangladesh
Rejected four times by the Microsoft Store: what a 19-year-old chemistry student learned building DownGo
An interview with the developer of DownGo. The useful part is not that he succeeded — it is the exact sequence of four rejections, what…
Bangladesh
Three Bangladeshi students took bronze at the World Robot Olympiad’s Asia-Pacific championship in Hyderabad
Team Blueprint placed third in the Future Engineers category. Four Bangladeshi teams competed across three categories, and Team Odyssey X…
Bangladesh
Two Bangladeshi students won SpaceX’s challenge at MIT with a tool that spots satellite collisions before they happen
Ashraful Islam and Md Tanvir Ibne Alam of Truman State University built Scutaris, an orbital safety platform, and beat entries from 36…
Technology
Students fear the essay they submit to be checked could end up training the AI that checks it
York students have raised concerns about licence changes at Turnitin, the plagiarism checker almost every university runs coursework…
Health
A sleep expert’s advice to new students: forget the early night, fix the morning
Late nights, noisy flatmates and a strange new bed. A psychotherapist who specialises in student sleep says forcing an early night does not…
Technology
Eight students, three fire-fighting robots: Team Bangladesh heads to the FIRST Global Challenge in South Korea
The "robotics Olympics" runs 7–10 October in Incheon with 190 countries and a wildfire theme. Bangladesh's team showed its CO2-ball…
Health
A million young people are being offered a free meningitis B jab after the Kent outbreak
Nearly 90,000 doses had already gone into arms with 135,000 more booked, after the UK’s fastest-growing outbreak. The programme targets the…
Technology
Three bronzes in Astana — what a six-hour machine-learning exam actually tests, and the one resource this olympiad needs that maths never did
No medals in 2024, two bronzes in 2025, three in 2026. The contest rewards experimental discipline rather than cleverness — and unlike…
Technology
Three class-nine students built a self-charging delivery robot for Tk 1 lakh — and chose the three hardest problems in the field to solve
Navigation, secure handover and autonomous charging. Each is a problem commercial operators spend millions on, and the third is the one…
Technology
Six students win Huawei’s Seeds for the Future and a trip to Shenzhen — who they are, what the programme is, and why a Chinese telecom firm runs it
From more than 600 undergraduate applicants, Huawei Bangladesh chose Mohammad Azmain and Arpon Saha (DU), Al Mumtahina and Sajid Ahmed…
Technology
Team Diamonds from Dhaka wins NASA's Space Apps Challenge with a game that teaches children the sky
Five students from Daffodil International University and North South University beat 2,814 teams from 162 countries to take the Most…