Education in BangladeshAspirations for Inclusive and Quality Education

Constitutional commitmentPolitical will, Visionary Leadership

Aspirations and GoalsNational

• 7th Five Year Plan, Perspective Plan, Inclusive growth

• Vision 2021

• Vision 2041

• Vision 2071

• Delta Plan 2100

International

• SDGs 2030

Leaving No One Behind

Realities

• Demographic Dividend: Now or Never

• 21st Century Challenges

• 4th Industrial Revolution

• Climate Change

• Resource Constraints

• Humanitarian Burdens (Rohingyas crisis)

Current Interventions

Free Books for all : 350 million plus in 2020

Accessible and inclusive education: Braille Books, Books in Ethnic Languages, Children with Disabilities and NDDs

Books in Ethnic Languages

• Stipends for more than 60% students

• Mid-day Meals for all Students

ICT Labs, Digital and Multi-media Classrooms

STEM→ STEAM

Water and Sanitation facility

Current Interventions

• Project Generation Breakthrough: SRH, Prevention of Sexual Harassment, GBV and Child Marriage

• Anti-Bullying Policy

• Counselling

Sports and Cultural Education

Modernizing Madrasa Education

Mainstreaming TVET

Teacher’s Training

Engaging Parents

Infrastructure development

•Curriculum: Seamless Transition from one

stage to another

•Early Childhood Education

•Assessment Methods

•Recruitment of Teachers

Ongoing Reforms

Ongoing Reforms

• Learning to Learn

• Lifelong Learning

• Skills Development

• Re-skilling

• Recognition of Prior Learning

Key Achievements in last decade

Status 2010 2018

Enrolment Primary 94.8 97.85

Secondary 49.53 69.38

Drop Out rate Primary 39.8 18.6

Secondary 55.26 37.62

TVET enrolment rate 22.90 24.76

Literacy rate 61.4 ( In 2014) 73.9

Gender parity(Boys:Girls)

Primary 49.25 50.75

Challenges

• Lack of Quality Data

• Lack of capacity for quality assessment

• Lack of Evidence based informed policy making

• Attracting talents into teaching

• Weak Education Governance: Monitoring, EMIS

• Financing for Quality Education

Way Forward: Making of Global Citizens

• Building competencies in Language, Maths, Science and ICT

• Developing soft skills, Social and Emotional skills

• Inculcating ethics and values

• Instilling , history Culture and heritage

Transforming Education

in One Generation

• International partnerships and collaboration key to success

• Let us be the Change to achieve our goals

Together we achieve more

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