Throughout 2022, education authorities focused on returning to a “normal” routine, making minimal adjustments mostly in organising public examinations.

Alongside new books, primary school students will get Tk 2,000 each to buy school uniforms at the beginning of the academic year from next year, says State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossain.

Primary and mass education ministry has raised the minimum qualification from HSC-degree to graduation for the female candidates for assistant teacher and headmaster posts.

The government has made graduation degree mandatory for female teacher candidates of government primary school from now.

The literacy rate in the country has risen to nearly 73 percent, said Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman yesterday.

The primary and ebtedai terminal examinations scheduled for tomorrow will be held on November 30.

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.