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The education system lacks a sound Human Resource Development and deployment system, and this has demoralized the primary education sector personnel, including teachers, and contributes to poor performance. Poverty is a big threat to primary education. In Bangladesh, the population is very high.
Education in Bangladesh is overseen by the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education is responsible for implementing policy for primary education and state-funded schools at a local level. Primary and secondary education is compulsory, and is financed by the state and free of charge in public schools.
The Directorate of Primary Education was established in 1981 to manage the nationalized primary schools. In 2013, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina nationalized 26 thousand more primary schools. [3] Bangladesh has 126,615 primary schools, 540 thousand teachers and 18.6 million students. [5]
Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of child-marriage in the world. 66% of women (aged 20 to 24) were married before they turned 18. 13% of children are involved in child labor. Child laborers are frequently denied an education and are vulnerable to violence and abuse. Less than 80% of students enrolled in grade one complete primary school.
BRAC is one of the largest NGOs involved in primary education in Bangladesh. As of the end of 2012, it had more than 22,700 non-formal primary schools with a combined enrollment of 670,000 children. [32] [ non-primary source needed ] Its schools constitute three-quarters of all NGO non-formal primary schools in the country.
National Curriculum and Textbook Board traces its origins to the East Pakistan School Textbook Board which was established in 1954. In 1971, the Bangladesh School Textbook Board was established. In 1976 it was constituted as the National Curriculum and Syllabus Committee and the National Curriculum Development Centre was established in 1981.
Primary education and mass literacy is the responsibility of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MOPME). The Ministry of Education contains two divisions: [1] [2] Secondary and Higher Education Division
The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education ... Secondary, vocational and tertiary educations is the responsibility of the Ministry of Education (Bangladesh) (MoED).