John Richards

Effective schools and learners through decentralised governance may make a difference in primary school education.

To serve the purpose of education, meeting the parents' demands through focusing on learning outcomes and reforming the education system are the need of the hour.

The interim government has to decide guidelines for the minimum reform targets to achieve, and where to begin.

In Bangladesh, the government could call on the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) to change the system of remunerating government schoolteachers.

In its latest education intervention, Bridge school has strived to improve the five elements required in any working education system.

In 2009, the government introduced the Primary Education Completion Examination (PECE), a mandatory test for grade 5 students to certify completion of the primary cycle.

Bangladesh can celebrate the International Literacy Day with pride. Since 2000, we have significantly increased enrolment and now nearly all children of an age to be in an early primary grade are in school.