Primary education in Bangladesh

Whom does education serve in Bangladesh?

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.
28 October 2024, 02:00 AM

Will the primary schools in Bangladesh remain neglected?

The government must accelerate the PEDP-4 project to improve these institutions.
11 October 2024, 14:30 PM

Primary students drop by over eight lakh

The number of students in all primary-level educational institutions has decreased by over 8.32 lakh in 2023 from the previous year, a government report reveals.
20 June 2024, 18:00 PM

How much you can pay decides what education your child gets

After three decades since the primary education pledge was made, the cost of a child’s education remains a heavy burden for some 80 lakh households.
17 April 2024, 02:00 AM

All that ails our primary education

More than 70,000 primary school teachers only possess a higher secondary level of education or less.
3 September 2023, 02:00 AM

Slum children need special attention

Authorities must ensure that poorer students are not left behind
19 August 2023, 13:01 PM

Why are so many still functionally illiterate?

It should be a wake-up call for our policymakers
20 July 2023, 05:30 AM

Don’t let politics derail school system, too

State minister should answer for mass school closure to attend son’s wedding reception
11 January 2023, 05:46 AM

Will multimedia classrooms remain a distant reality?

Follow-up of public projects is key to their effectiveness
23 November 2022, 10:21 AM

ADB approves $500m loan for primary education in Bangladesh

The Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approves a $500 million loan to support Bangladesh’s Fourth Primary Education Development Programme that aims to provide quality education to all children from pre-primary to grade 5.
27 September 2018, 15:08 PM