Education is the bedrock of personal empowerment, social equality, societal cohesion, and economic progress.
About 22 percent of the respondents placed top priority on decent jobs, 17.5 percent on quality education and 12 percent on social protection, said the associated report.
Delivering quality education is facing a major challenge in Bangladesh due to the imposition of shallow thinking on the mindset of children through reels and shorts, said Mahmudul Hasan Sohag, co-founder of Rokomari, an e-commerce platform.
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.
An innovative scheme is needed to move towards quality education within the current constraints.
In Bangladesh, although primary education is free and the government provides the textbooks, more than 4.3 million children aged 6-15 years are not in school.
The allocation for education in the proposed budget for FY2022-23 leaves a lot to be desired.
Education Minister Dipu Moni said they are working hard to ensure quality education in all aspects, as per the direction of the prime minister.
Bangladesh has made a space for itself in the region. Over the last few decades, there has been stable economic growth underpinned by increased investments for human development, poverty alleviation, increased access to microcredit,
The United Nations has announced it is marking the 2015 edition of the World Day Against Child Labour with a call for the international community to invest in quality education as a key step in the fight against child employment – a scourge that consumes over one hundred million children worldwide.
