Violence indigenous women

Bangladesh, like other states in south Asia has also ratified the international treaties on equality and non- discrimination between men and women.Some of these measures are also contained in the national constitution of Bangladesh.That does not mean, of course,that human rights violations do not take place in these contries.In the CHT,indigenous women are encountering various forms of human rights violace.Despite the CHT Accord of 1997, the indigenous women continue to be sexsually and veba harrassed and assaulted by majority.The cessation of hostilities may have decreased the risk of such sexsual offences, but indigenous women are still very much at risk.Women from various indigenous communities are facing different types of human rights violations.The various forms of abuse by Bangali settlers are in the increase. This may be because the settlers, who were mostly confined in protected"cluster villages" before are now far more mobile because of the end of guerilla war.

Plans

Major Reforms Undertaken by the Government for Improving Quality of Education

• Introduction of unitrack curriculum in secondary level education from 2006
• School based assessment (SBA) in secondary level education
• Reform of existing examination systems in secondary level education
• Privatization of Textbook Writing and Publication
• Re-organization of Managing Committee/Governing Body of the Non-Government Educational Institutions
• Formation of Oversight Committee for Supervision of Teaching at Classrooms
• Sanction of MPO on the basis of performance of educational institutions
• Strengthening of Teachers' Training
• Delivery of Textbooks to the Students on Time
• Development and Modernization of Secondary, Technical and Madrasha Curricula
• Retirement and Welfare Fund for Non-Government Teachers
• Establishment of 10 Foreign Language Centers
• Distribution of 20000 computers in secondary level educational institutions including Madrashas
• Training of secondary level teachers' in computer applications
• Restructuring of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education
• Restructuring of National Academy for Education Management (NAEM)
• Restructuring of Personnel of Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong, Jessore, Barisal, Comilla, Sylhet) and NCTB

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