Primary education in Bangladesh
Whom does education serve in Bangladesh?
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.
Will the primary schools in Bangladesh remain neglected?
The government must accelerate the PEDP-4 project to improve these institutions.
Primary students drop by over eight lakh
The number of students in all primary-level educational institutions has decreased by over 8.32 lakh in 2023 from the previous year, a government report reveals.
How much you can pay decides what education your child gets
After three decades since the primary education pledge was made, the cost of a child’s education remains a heavy burden for some 80 lakh households.
All that ails our primary education
More than 70,000 primary school teachers only possess a higher secondary level of education or less.
Slum children need special attention
Authorities must ensure that poorer students are not left behind
Why are so many still functionally illiterate?
It should be a wake-up call for our policymakers
Don’t let politics derail school system, too
State minister should answer for mass school closure to attend son’s wedding reception
Will multimedia classrooms remain a distant reality?
Follow-up of public projects is key to their effectiveness
Whom does education serve in Bangladesh?
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.
Will the primary schools in Bangladesh remain neglected?
The government must accelerate the PEDP-4 project to improve these institutions.
Primary students drop by over eight lakh
The number of students in all primary-level educational institutions has decreased by over 8.32 lakh in 2023 from the previous year, a government report reveals.
How much you can pay decides what education your child gets
After three decades since the primary education pledge was made, the cost of a child’s education remains a heavy burden for some 80 lakh households.
All that ails our primary education
More than 70,000 primary school teachers only possess a higher secondary level of education or less.
Slum children need special attention
Authorities must ensure that poorer students are not left behind
Why are so many still functionally illiterate?
It should be a wake-up call for our policymakers
Don’t let politics derail school system, too
State minister should answer for mass school closure to attend son’s wedding reception
Will multimedia classrooms remain a distant reality?
Follow-up of public projects is key to their effectiveness
ADB approves $500m loan for primary education in Bangladesh
The Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approves a $500 million loan to support Bangladesh’s Fourth Primary Education Development Programme that aims to provide quality education to all children from pre-primary to grade 5.