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

A parliamentary body recommends making technical courses mandatory at all general stream secondary schools.

The government is going to take up a massive $17.2 billion or Tk 137,666 crore programme for secondary education for the first time under the revenue budget in the next fiscal year.

Secondary school students are increasingly turning to guidebooks and private tuition due to heavy curriculum and complex textbooks, say leading academics and educationists. The question papers of public examinations at secondary level are faulty and of low standard, they said at a view-exchange meeting yesterday.