primary education
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.
Educating education / The key changes needed in the education sector
The new norm for education should be people before profit, not the other way around.
Don’t neglect primary education
Government has to look into the decline of students
Reimagining primary and compulsory education in Bangladesh
It is believed that education, in the midst of global advances and challenges, remains the critical vehicle of empowerment.
Govt again moves to extend primary education up to class-VIII
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 statistics that hide our poor education system
The enchantment of statistics should not blind us to the sobering truth.
Over 18,000 non-govt primary schools close doors in 2 years
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.
Dhaka’s uninspiring govt primary schools
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.
Quality training crucial for primary school teachers
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
Primary schools in wretched state
A report published in this daily yesterday revealed the awful conditions of Islamia UP Government Primary School in Sutrapur of Old Dhaka. Four other schools in the same area are in no better state.
PRIMARY EDUCATION: LEARNERS OR JUST TEST-TAKERS?
The primary education authorities – especially the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MoPME) – must be busily preparing for the Primary Education Completion Examination (PECE) or Shomaponi to be held in November.
We hope that we will be able to help Bangladesh realise its full potential: Robert D. Watkins
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star, Robert D. Watkins, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Bangladesh talks to Amitava Kar about some development ideas for Bangladesh.