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This article examines whether teaching English in Bangladeshi secondary schools is a blessing or a curse. The paper seeks to ask soul-searching questions; reiterates the voices and findings of previous scholars and evokes the need to look at the rot within our system in order to engender genuine and practical transformations. It adopts the desk research methodology and mostly draws data from the review of 50 secondary-based sources. The paper argues that the students learning English in Bangladeshi secondary schools are deprived of many essentials that should make them proficient users of the English language, yet they are expected to be effective users of the language in different real life situations; which is challenging. Furthermore, the paper proposes that if there other acknowledged World Englishes, Bangladesh can have a variety of English that accepts and reflects Bengali pronunciations, grammar and meaning. The paper concludes with the question- if other Asian countries, whose native speakers do not use the English language fluently; still develop in geometric progression, can we still tie the teaching of English in our secondary schools and the ability of students (and the rest of the population) communicating fluently in English to Bangladesh’s development?

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of altruistic and egoistic as behavioral variables on socially responsible investment decision. This paper also investigates the aspects that investors consider the most in making decisions. Method - A total of 108 sample respondents were selected using a purposive sampling technique. The criteria used are capital market study group students who have at least one ethical stock in their portfolio. Conjoint and regression analysis were involved to conduct the research. Result - The results showed that the investment attributes that investors prioritize are industry focus followed by return and risk. Furthermore, the most preferred industry focus is ‘sustainable asset’ followed by ‘no focus’ and ‘arms and defense’. Investment preferences in sustainable assets are based on the altruistic value of investors. Altruism has been shown to have a significant positive effect on investors' decisions to invest their funds in stock which belong to socially responsible investment. On the other hand, the egoistic value has a significant negative effect on the decision to invest in socially responsible investment. Implication - By looking at the research result, companies as stock issuers may consider to create or make their stock sustainable. This research would be beneficial for investment analysts or consultants in providing advice for their clients. Originality - This research uses altruistic and egoistic variables as psychological variables in investment decisions. In addition to using behavioral finance, it also involves value-belief-norm theory to explain the phenomena and discuss altruistic value in Islam perspective.

Student satisfaction on the use of e-learning is an important role for the continuity of an educational institution, especially in the current era of the covid 19 pandemic, the process of teaching and learning activities that are usually carried out in offline classes is abolished and replaced by utilizing the e-learning system. Because of the importance of the role of e-learning as a medium for student learning, knowledge is needed to determine the level of student satisfaction of e-learning as an evaluation material for managers to improve the quality of e-learning so that it can provide optimal services to students. Therefore, a classification technique with data mining is needed using the c.45 algorithm method on the WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) software. The results show that 73% of students are satisfied with the e-learning of the State Islamic University of Semarang and 23% of students are not satisfied with an accuracy of 84.76%.

The addition of organic fertilizer into soil increased earthworm growth and its activity and, not only for decomposer group but also for soil digger group (ecosystem engineer).Pontoscolex corethrurus is one of ecosystem engineer group create many channel in soil, so that increased soil porosity and infiltration in soil The objective of this research was to study on N leaching in various biopores condition which formed by earthworm`s activity. Various level of soil porosity and nitrate consentration at controlled condition was obtained from application of mixture of 3 types of litter (coffee, Gliricidia and durian), N-urea fertilizer and soil digger earthworm (Pontoscolex corethrurus) into soil.  The treatments tested were (1) KO : Control 1 (without worm, N-Organik and N-Anorganik); (2) KCC : Control 2 (added earthworm, without N-Organic and N-inorganic); (3) UREA : (added earthworm + N-inorganic, without N-Organik); (4) KGD : (added earthworm and N-Organic, without N-inorganic); (5) KGDU : (added earthworm + N-inorganic + N-Organic). Each treatment was repeated four times. The biopores formed by earthworm was measured from the length of soil channel at 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th weeks after treatments (WAP). Measurement on earthworm`s growth was conducted with measuring earthworm`s length, diameter, biomass and casting by the end of treatment (8 WAP). Analysis of nitrate in leachete was done at 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th WAP. Result of this research showed that application of N-anorganic only led to more active earthworm rather (83 %) than application of N-organic resulting longer vertical channel formed by earthworm. However, the increasing the length of vertical channel was not followed by increasing of water percolation. Porosity was related to nitrat leached concentration (R2 = 0.36). Total of leaching was not only influenced by porosity but also by another factor like NO3- -available (influence by N source input). Application of N-anorganic increased concentration of leached NO3- (42 %) than application of N-organic (181 mg L-1 concentration of leached NO3-). No significant (p>0.05) correlation between soil porosity and earthworm`s biomass was found.