Strategic Plans

Strategic Plans

Major Initiatives taken by the Ministry

Education Commission 2003 submitted its report in March 2004 and GOB has initiated actions to review and prioritize its 880 recommendations concerning each stream and level of education.
Actually many of the recommendations made by the Education Commission are already in the process of implementation and many are in the pipeline for implementation. Some of the actions are taken in this respect are described below:

• Government has enacted Primary Education (Compulsory) Law in 1990 to achieve the universal primary enrolment by 2005
• More then 98% of secondary schools are non-government. But Government pays 90% of the teacher and staff salary of these institutions
• Bangladesh has sustained increased government allocation in education sector from the 1990s
• Government is currently providing subsidies to create demand for education in favor of the poor and girls
• Government has initiated the decentralization of primary and secondary education management structure
• Government has established an autonomous Nongovernmental Secondary Teachers Registration and Certification Authority in order to recruit qualified and trained teachers in secondary level institutions
• A large project for the improvement of teaching quality at the secondary level institutions is underway
• A new apex body named National Teachers Training Authority by restructuring existing National Academy for Education Management (NAEM) is on card. This proposed institution would train both public and private sector teachers from 2005/06
• Reorganization of National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) has also started with the objective to separate functions of the Board into two units, e.g., curriculum and textbook. This would enhance competition in textbook production and publishing and enable Board to concentrate on curriculum development
• A separate entity named Independent Textbook Evaluation Committee (ITEC) has been established for designing transparent criteria under which individual textbook manuscripts will be evaluated
• Privatization of textbook production and publication has already started for grades 6 to 10. Publication of all textbooks at the secondary level will be privatized by 2007
• An Accreditation Council is being established which would function as a watchdog over the private universities in order to monitor the teaching standard of universities