Confarence

Conference on Multi Lingual Education (MLE) in the CHT

                                                    

A conference on MLE at Rangamati held from 13-15 Ocober 2009 to identify how stakeholders can support the government to implement its commitments to MLE in CHT and implications of the recently developed draft National Eucation Policy with regards to MLE. Prof. Md. Mostafa Kamaluddin, Chairman, NCTB alone with Md. Murshid Aktar, Research officer of NCTB attended the conference. Chairman, NCTB attended as the chief guest in the last rap up session . Md. Murshid Aktar in his speech appreciated the initiative to introduce MLE but he showed his deep concern about the process of bridging from Mother Tongue (MT) based education to National Language (NL) based education. If the process is shown ineffective in the future that will affect a generation of Hill tracts' Child who will receive education through MLE. He requested the experts group to first find out the effective process of Bridging then go for implementing to the Hill tracts and NCTB will provide all out support to do so and if necessary to revise the curriculum NCTB is there to do so." Chairman, NCTB also showed his concern about the bridging process and told that NCTB is ready to provide technical support in this regards.