How can we expect students to learn in an unsafe environment?

It is hard to believe that a government primary school, built in the middle of croplands, in Kurigram Sadar upazila is running without students.

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.

State minister should answer for mass school closure to attend son’s wedding reception

Ministry of Primary and Mass Education decides to appoint 28,000 teachers waiting on panel and pool lists who qualified as assistant teachers of the government primary schools in 2012.

Keeping 82 government primary schools in Parbatipur upazila closed, at least 265 teachers along with their family members went on picnics on Saturday, angering parents.

High Court directs government to recruit around 2,500 people who qualified as assistant teachers of government primary schools in 2012.