The new norm for education should be people before profit, not the other way around.
Government has to look into the decline of students
It is believed that education, in the midst of global advances and challenges, remains the critical vehicle of empowerment.
The government has made a fresh move to extend primary education up to class-VIII, six years after missing the original deadline set in the National Education Policy.
The enchantment of statistics should not blind us to the sobering truth.
At least 18,465 non-government primary schools closed their doors for good in 2021 and 2022 due to what officials said were the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic.
The government aims to build a “Smart Bangladesh” by 2041, but without fixing our faulty public education system, how far can it achieve this goal? The human resources for Bangladesh’s future are being short-changed at the primary education level, finds The Daily Star through visits to several schools right in the heart of the capital.
Teachers teach students from pre-primary to primary levels without having much pedagogical training. But this period is the most important of one’s entire education life
More than half of primary schoolkids do not have the expected level of competence in mathematics and Bangla, reveals a new government assessment, raising questions about the quality of the country’s primary education.
The new norm for education should be people before profit, not the other way around.
Government has to look into the decline of students
It is believed that education, in the midst of global advances and challenges, remains the critical vehicle of empowerment.
The government has made a fresh move to extend primary education up to class-VIII, six years after missing the original deadline set in the National Education Policy.
The enchantment of statistics should not blind us to the sobering truth.
At least 18,465 non-government primary schools closed their doors for good in 2021 and 2022 due to what officials said were the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic.
The government aims to build a “Smart Bangladesh” by 2041, but without fixing our faulty public education system, how far can it achieve this goal? The human resources for Bangladesh’s future are being short-changed at the primary education level, finds The Daily Star through visits to several schools right in the heart of the capital.
Teachers teach students from pre-primary to primary levels without having much pedagogical training. But this period is the most important of one’s entire education life
More than half of primary schoolkids do not have the expected level of competence in mathematics and Bangla, reveals a new government assessment, raising questions about the quality of the country’s primary education.
Field-level officials of Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) have been asked to monitor the areas of government primary schools so that no-primary level educational institutions would be established there.