It needs to recognise both the challenges and the opportunities.

Around 85 percent students of classes 8 and 9 took private tuition to recover education losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, said Education Watch 2022 report (EW22)

Over 60 percent of the third graders and 70 percent of the fifth graders don’t have the proficiency in maths, appropriate for their grades, finds a government assessment depicting a grim picture of the quality of the country’s primary education.

In the Global Knowledge Index 2021, Bangladesh ranked 120th out of 154 countries. Bangladesh ranks 102nd among the 132 economies featured in the Global Innovation Index 2022. In the age of open source AI like ChatGPT, the research and innovation qualities of Bangladeshi students and researchers may get worse, so proper steps and actions must be taken now.

Learning about gender rights, intersectionality and equality is an important part of education

Over-expenditure in English education has led to under-expenditure for other subjects, particularly Bangla and STEM subjects.