New pay commission for teachers soon

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The government will form a separate pay commission for teachers from primary school to university levels aiming to restore their dignity, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said Thursday while unveiling a package measure for upgrading the education sector, reports UNB.
"We want to form separate pay commission and recruitment board for all the teachers," he said, adding that it's a 'time-consuming' matter to implement the major recipe of the Grand Alliance government.
The Education Minister made the disclosure to journalists after inaugurating a Tk 6.82 billion (682 crore) project titled 'Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project' (HEQEP) at a city hotel.
The new government is also going to frame an education policy that will be pro-employment compatible with the requirements of the local and international employers. "We have already started work," he told the function.
The Minister said they would provide stipends to the disadvantaged students in tea gardens, char regions, North Bengal and the Hill Tracts to prevent dropout in these backwoods.
He said 100 per cent stipends will be provided to the students, up from the present 40 per cent.
Releasing a finding, Nahid told his audience that about 42 per cent students get dropped out from the stage of admission into class nine to the secondary school certificate examination.
He stressed more budgetary allocation in education sector to resolve such a problem.
The HEQEP will be implemented by the University Grants Commission (UGC) with financial support from the World Bank (WB) to enhance standard of education at university level.
The UGC organised the function to launch the five-year project with its chairman Prof Nazrul Islam in the chair.
Speaking as the special guest, eminent academic Prof Dr AM Harun Ar Rashid asked the government to establish a central research institute and central library at Dhaka University (DU) for all the universities to boost the qualitative improvements.
"Politicisation in the educational institutes still hampers producing quality students and researchers," he said and suggested that the government learned the lesson from the four months in their tenure.
Prof Harun also stressed Nan technology, ICT, global climate change research and genetic engineering in implementing the project.
UGC chairman Nazrul Islam said about the project that it was aimed at developing academic and research activities in higher studies.
"The project is designed to contribute to generating eligible and qualified human resources," he added.