Govt urged to take effective steps for combating dropout rates in schools
Friday, 23 April 2010
Speakers at a roundtable urged the government to take comprehensive measures to ensure primary education for the children, by combating the dropout rates of school-going children.
They said that 55 per cent of the children, mostly from ethnic or marginalized communities, dropout of primary education every year because of gender discrimination, poverty, disability and geographical remoteness.
Save the Children and The Daily Star, a leading English newspaper, jointly organised the roundtable on 'A National Priority for Education for All: Reaching Vulnerable Children' at the National Press Club Thursday, reports UNB.
The speakers said that only five per cent of the children actually gain any mastery of the subjects they are taught.
Chaired by Dr Monjur Ahmed, the roundtable was addressed, among others, by state minister for Primary and Mass Education Motahar Hossain, editor of The Daily Star Mahfuz Anam, former advisor to the caretaker government Rasheda K Chowdhury and education sector director of Save the Children M Habibur Rahman.
State Minister Motahar Hossain said the government was working hard to ensure primary education for all by providing books and other technical assistance to the primary education sector.
"We will be able to bring all children under primary education by 2011, eliminating all sorts of complications. We have to identify which are the more marginal and vulnerable groups," he said.
They said that 55 per cent of the children, mostly from ethnic or marginalized communities, dropout of primary education every year because of gender discrimination, poverty, disability and geographical remoteness.
Save the Children and The Daily Star, a leading English newspaper, jointly organised the roundtable on 'A National Priority for Education for All: Reaching Vulnerable Children' at the National Press Club Thursday, reports UNB.
The speakers said that only five per cent of the children actually gain any mastery of the subjects they are taught.
Chaired by Dr Monjur Ahmed, the roundtable was addressed, among others, by state minister for Primary and Mass Education Motahar Hossain, editor of The Daily Star Mahfuz Anam, former advisor to the caretaker government Rasheda K Chowdhury and education sector director of Save the Children M Habibur Rahman.
State Minister Motahar Hossain said the government was working hard to ensure primary education for all by providing books and other technical assistance to the primary education sector.
"We will be able to bring all children under primary education by 2011, eliminating all sorts of complications. We have to identify which are the more marginal and vulnerable groups," he said.