The government committee on primary education is set to recommend a classroom size of 30 so that teachers can give extra attention to weaker students to help with their learning.

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.

The new norm for education should be people before profit, not the other way around.

Government has to look into the decline of students

It is believed that education, in the midst of global advances and challenges, remains the critical vehicle of empowerment.

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 enchantment of statistics should not blind us to the sobering truth.

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.

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.

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

More than half of primary schoolkids do not have the expected level of competence in mathematics and Bangla, reveals a new government assessment, raising questions about the quality of the country’s primary education.

Field-level officials of Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) have been asked to monitor the areas of government primary schools so that no-primary level educational institutions would be established there.

Students of classes I, II and III will not require to sit for any examinations from this year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon all not to put extra pressure on the children for studying instead of making education interesting and delightful to them.

The government has taken up a massive programme for primary education with emphasis on teachers' training in English, so that students can better learn the language at an early stage.

The primary and mass education ministry decides in principle to scrap Class-V terminal examination as the primary level was elevated to class-VIII.

We will address this from two different angles. Firstly, as a policy, enhancing the level of primary education to class VIII from class V...

From now on, primary education in the country will be up to class-VIII. The government made the decision yesterday to extend the level of primary education from class-V in light of the National Education Policy 2010.

In light of the National Education Policy, the government finalises its decision to extend primary education level up to class VIII from V. It’s a major decision for the country’s education system, says Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid.

Today, 99 percent of Bangladesh's girls and 97 percent of boys are enrolled in primary school.