PM directs introduction of primary edn curriculum suiting tender-age children
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Tuesday asked for introducing an updated curriculum for primary education that suits tender-aged children, who are usually burdened with a backbreaking load of books, reports UNB.
"Curriculum should be formulated considering how much the children can absorb," she said after receiving the results of the Primary Education Terminal Examination at her office in the city.
She directed the ministry concerned not to overload children at the primary level.
The PM also laid emphasis on providing vocational education to those who are interested. She advised paying more attention to religious education at the primary level.
Press Secretary to the PM Abul Kalam Azad briefed reporters after the publication of results of the maiden primary school certificate exam held across the country from November 21.
The PM inaugurated the results switching on a website. Some 88.84 per cent students passed the first public exam in their life.
Primary and mass education minister Dr Afsarul Ameen and state minister Motahar Hossain, advisers to the PM HT Imam, Dr Moshiur Rahman and Dr Alauddin Ahmed, principal secretary to the Prime Minister MA Karim, PMO secretary Molla Waheeduzzaman and Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad were present on the occasion.
The PM, who has envisaged a digital Bangladesh, asked the Primary and Mass Education Minister and other concerned officials to provide computer in all schools of the country. "It's a must," she said.
She also said that the government would communicate with all school committees across the country regarding providing subsidy for tiffin in the schools to ensure there are no dropouts at the primary-level schooling.
Speaking about the new education policy in the making, PM Sheikh Hasina said that the main aim of the education policy was to provide a strong base for the education system of the country.
Hasina reminded that education was the backbone of a nation and no nations of the world could step forward without having good education and knowledge.
"Considering this, father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman laid utmost importance on education and provided all-out cooperation to the education sector after independence of the country," she said.
The PM said that Bangabandhu at that time had made education from class 1 to 5 free of cost. But, after his assassination, the governments did not pay that much attention to the education sector, she lamented.
"Curriculum should be formulated considering how much the children can absorb," she said after receiving the results of the Primary Education Terminal Examination at her office in the city.
She directed the ministry concerned not to overload children at the primary level.
The PM also laid emphasis on providing vocational education to those who are interested. She advised paying more attention to religious education at the primary level.
Press Secretary to the PM Abul Kalam Azad briefed reporters after the publication of results of the maiden primary school certificate exam held across the country from November 21.
The PM inaugurated the results switching on a website. Some 88.84 per cent students passed the first public exam in their life.
Primary and mass education minister Dr Afsarul Ameen and state minister Motahar Hossain, advisers to the PM HT Imam, Dr Moshiur Rahman and Dr Alauddin Ahmed, principal secretary to the Prime Minister MA Karim, PMO secretary Molla Waheeduzzaman and Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad were present on the occasion.
The PM, who has envisaged a digital Bangladesh, asked the Primary and Mass Education Minister and other concerned officials to provide computer in all schools of the country. "It's a must," she said.
She also said that the government would communicate with all school committees across the country regarding providing subsidy for tiffin in the schools to ensure there are no dropouts at the primary-level schooling.
Speaking about the new education policy in the making, PM Sheikh Hasina said that the main aim of the education policy was to provide a strong base for the education system of the country.
Hasina reminded that education was the backbone of a nation and no nations of the world could step forward without having good education and knowledge.
"Considering this, father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman laid utmost importance on education and provided all-out cooperation to the education sector after independence of the country," she said.
The PM said that Bangabandhu at that time had made education from class 1 to 5 free of cost. But, after his assassination, the governments did not pay that much attention to the education sector, she lamented.