Education

Coronavirus: HSC, equivalent exams postponed

The Higher Secondary Examination (HSC) and its equivalent examinations have been postponed due to coronavirus outbreak.

The Education Ministry on Sunday confirmed this in a press release signed by its Public Relations Officer Mohammad Abul Khair.

The next exam schedule will be announced in the first week of April, it said.  

The HSC and its equivalent examinations were scheduled to begin across the country on April 1. 

The government on March 16, closed all the educational institutions across Bangladesh till March 31, following detection of coronavirus patients in the country.