Net enrolment rate in primary edn marks 4.5pc improvement
Sunday, 28 December 2008
The net enrolment rate in the country's primary education increased from 87.2 per cent in 2005 to 91.9 per cent in 2007, showing a 4.5 per cent improvement, reports UNB.
The statistics were presented Saturday at a views-exchange meeting titled 'Primary Education: Achievements, Future Plans and Challenges' at the Directorate of Primary Education at Mirpur in the city.
Primary and Mass Education Adviser Rasheda K Chowdhury was present at the programme as the chief guest with Primary Education secretary Mohammed Badrul Alam Tarafder in the chair. DG of Primary Education Nazrul Islam Khan presented a slideshow at the programme.
In his presentation, Nazrul Islam showed the rate of student absenteeism from school at all primary grades fell from 22 per cent in 2005 to 19 per cent in 2007.
He also showed that a significant infrastructural development also took place in the sector as two additional class rooms in each of the 15,000 government primary schools and 398 school-cum-cyclone-shelters constructed under a project titled 'PEDP II on the PE Sub-sector'.
Speaking on the occasion, Rasheda K Chowdhury claimed that corruption in recruiting primary teachers remarkably came down in the last two years of the present Caretaker Government.
Rahsheda said they have taken different initiatives and initiated institutional reforms for development of the sector.
She expressed the hope that the pace of development of the sector which they initiated would continue by the next government.
The statistics were presented Saturday at a views-exchange meeting titled 'Primary Education: Achievements, Future Plans and Challenges' at the Directorate of Primary Education at Mirpur in the city.
Primary and Mass Education Adviser Rasheda K Chowdhury was present at the programme as the chief guest with Primary Education secretary Mohammed Badrul Alam Tarafder in the chair. DG of Primary Education Nazrul Islam Khan presented a slideshow at the programme.
In his presentation, Nazrul Islam showed the rate of student absenteeism from school at all primary grades fell from 22 per cent in 2005 to 19 per cent in 2007.
He also showed that a significant infrastructural development also took place in the sector as two additional class rooms in each of the 15,000 government primary schools and 398 school-cum-cyclone-shelters constructed under a project titled 'PEDP II on the PE Sub-sector'.
Speaking on the occasion, Rasheda K Chowdhury claimed that corruption in recruiting primary teachers remarkably came down in the last two years of the present Caretaker Government.
Rahsheda said they have taken different initiatives and initiated institutional reforms for development of the sector.
She expressed the hope that the pace of development of the sector which they initiated would continue by the next government.