Committees formed to review secondary syllabus

In a bid to review the curriculum of secondary-level education and make more changes in selected textbooks, two separate committees were formed on Sunday.

 

The Ministry of Education in the country has taken the move in this regard.

 

Of the two, one committee will suggest changes for making text books more readable after reviewing the 2012 curriculum while another one will work to improve the quality of text books of classes nine and ten.

 

Earlier the National Textbook Festival was celebrated at all primary and secondary level educational institutions across the country on January 1.

 

Over 42 million schoolchildren across the country celebrated the textbook festival receiving books free of cost for their new classes on the first day of the New Year joining the festivity at schools and madrasahs across the country.

 

Education Minister  during the inaugural session said 36,21,82,245 textbooks were distributed among 4,26,35,929 students of pre-primary, primary, ebtedayee, secondary, dakhil and technical students for the 2017 academic year as the schools and the other equivalent educational institutions staged ceremonies at their compounds to hand them over the newly printed books.

 

He said in the past eight years, Bangladesh also made significant progress in education "fulfilling different global targets including achieving gender parity in education before scheduled time" while distribution of books free of cost significantly contributed to checking dropout rate.

 

Education ministry officials, according to BSS report, earlier said 333,762,772 textbooks were distributed among 4,44,16,728 students of pre-primary, primary, ebtedayee, secondary, dakhil and technical students for the 2016 academic year.

 

They said of the total number of books, 65,77,154 were distributed among 33,73,373 pre-primary students while 10,87,19,99 textbooks of 33 subjects were distributed among 2,45,71,731 students of Bangla and English version at primary level.