Govt enacts new education policy to raise standard of edn: Hasina
Thursday, 10 September 2009
The government has formulated a new education policy and taken initiatives to implement it for raising the standard of education in the country.
Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina said this while replying to a supplementary query raised by treasury bench member Shawkat Momen Shahjahan in the House Wednesday, reports BSS.
"We want to reorganise the country's education system as a nation cannot develop without education", the Leader of the House said.
She said draft of the new education policy was already hosted into the internet for opinion of the people.
"The nation will witness epoch making changes in the education system if the policy is implemented on the basis of the opinions of all concerned", she added.
Answering to the main question from ruling party lawmaker AKM Rahma-tullah, the Prime Minister said the cabinet has taken a decision to hold the final examination across the country for the students of Class-V after completion of primary education and provide scholarship on the basis of its results.
Besides, formation of a cadre named BCS (primary education) Cadre for the concerned officials involved in the primary education management is under scrutiny, she said.
Hasina said discrimination, created for giving special care to the meritorious students by separating the general students to prepare for the scholarship examination, would be removed after introduction of the final examination of Class-V at the primary level.
She said the final examination would now be taken on six subjects, instead of four subjects in the scholarship examination, giving equal importance to all subjects.
She also said the teachers would give lessons by giving importance to all students if the scholarships are provided on the basis of the results of primary education final examinations.
"It will be possible to evaluate the standard of all students of Class-V under the same criterion in the light of such final examinations to be held with similar questionnaires and through maintaining secrecy as well as transparency by using coding and decoding system", she added.
The Prime Minister expressed the hope that the final examinations would be given priority by the students, guardians as well as teachers if the scholarships were provided in this way instead of taking two examinations in the form of scholarship examinations and final examinations.
She said all students would also develop their respective sense of competition in a positive way for scoring better results in their examinations.
"Certificates will be given to the students on the basis of the results of final examinations and they will be admitted to the next higher classes by merit of the certificates", she said.
The Prime Minister said efficient as well as professional manpower would be employed for supervising and running the primary education, if the BCS (primary education) cadre is constituted.
Responding to another question raised by treasury bench member Talukdar Mohammad Yunus, Hasina said the repair work of the educational institutions damaged by the cyclone 'Aila' in the coastal areas is going on.
Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina said this while replying to a supplementary query raised by treasury bench member Shawkat Momen Shahjahan in the House Wednesday, reports BSS.
"We want to reorganise the country's education system as a nation cannot develop without education", the Leader of the House said.
She said draft of the new education policy was already hosted into the internet for opinion of the people.
"The nation will witness epoch making changes in the education system if the policy is implemented on the basis of the opinions of all concerned", she added.
Answering to the main question from ruling party lawmaker AKM Rahma-tullah, the Prime Minister said the cabinet has taken a decision to hold the final examination across the country for the students of Class-V after completion of primary education and provide scholarship on the basis of its results.
Besides, formation of a cadre named BCS (primary education) Cadre for the concerned officials involved in the primary education management is under scrutiny, she said.
Hasina said discrimination, created for giving special care to the meritorious students by separating the general students to prepare for the scholarship examination, would be removed after introduction of the final examination of Class-V at the primary level.
She said the final examination would now be taken on six subjects, instead of four subjects in the scholarship examination, giving equal importance to all subjects.
She also said the teachers would give lessons by giving importance to all students if the scholarships are provided on the basis of the results of primary education final examinations.
"It will be possible to evaluate the standard of all students of Class-V under the same criterion in the light of such final examinations to be held with similar questionnaires and through maintaining secrecy as well as transparency by using coding and decoding system", she added.
The Prime Minister expressed the hope that the final examinations would be given priority by the students, guardians as well as teachers if the scholarships were provided in this way instead of taking two examinations in the form of scholarship examinations and final examinations.
She said all students would also develop their respective sense of competition in a positive way for scoring better results in their examinations.
"Certificates will be given to the students on the basis of the results of final examinations and they will be admitted to the next higher classes by merit of the certificates", she said.
The Prime Minister said efficient as well as professional manpower would be employed for supervising and running the primary education, if the BCS (primary education) cadre is constituted.
Responding to another question raised by treasury bench member Talukdar Mohammad Yunus, Hasina said the repair work of the educational institutions damaged by the cyclone 'Aila' in the coastal areas is going on.