Access to Schooling for the Disadvantaged Groups
A more progressive redistribution of government primary education spending to the children from poorest and disadvantaged groups and a better targeting of the primary stipend program to the poorest students, are likely to help Bangladesh achieve its EFA targets.
Metropolitan Areas
The pervasive poverty in Metropolitan areas and the lack of access to education for many children, including those from indigenous groups, signal the pressing need to tailor the stipend program to the most needy and meritorious students.
Quality of Primary Schooling
Improving the overall quality of schooling is a pressing task in order to substantially raise enrollment and help more children complete primary school with the appropriate skills in literacy and numeracy.
- Improve Facilities
Despite decades of infrastructure development, a large number of classrooms and local administrative facilities need to be repaired and/or renovated.
- Improve Teacher Quality and Incentive
Hiring local teachers and providing opportunities for training and professional career growth is critical. Further, building an internal incentive structure within the school system to reward performing teachers is likely to be sustainable.
- Improving Governance in the Bangladesh Education System
Transparency teacher recruitment, teacher training and deployment procedures would also be crucial in improving the overall governance of the education system.
- Curriculum and Textbooks
Improving the quality of textbooks and transparency in the distribution of textbooks is likely to help the learning environment.
- Decentralize the school system
Developing information campaigns on the delivery of services and resources from the Central Government to local schools to empower local communities would be instrumental in improving the quality of schooling and learning outcomes.
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