JJ竞技入口注册网站

Education / Pre-primary and primary - Secondary

Bangladesh's pre-primary, primary, and secondary education systems are large and complex, involving two ministries and enrolling over 34.2 million students at more than 206,000 government and nongovernment educational institutions in 2020. The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education (MOPME) oversees pre-primary (age 5) and primary (grades 1-5) education, whereas the Ministry of Education (MOE) looks after junior secondary (grades 6-8), secondary (grades 9-10), and higher secondary (grades 11-12) education. MOE is also in charge of madrasa, technical and vocational, and tertiary education. With concerted efforts to increase access to pre-primary, primary, and secondary education during the last decade, the systems have expanded significantly, from about 16.9 million students enrolled in around 120,000 educational institutions in 2011. Yet, high student dropout rates and absenteeism, weak learning outcomes, and lack of skills for employment and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are a few of remaining and emerging challenges yet to be addressed. Moreover, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed, the systems remain highly vulnerable to multiple hazards, including health, natural disasters, and extreme weather events.

The Asian Development Bank (JJ竞技(拉萨)登录手游) has been supporting pre-primary, primary, and secondary education in Bangladesh since the 1980s through a series of loans and TA projects. Building on its long-term engagement in the sector, JJ竞技(拉萨)登录手游's assistance has fostered systemic reforms to enhance learning outcomes, gender equality, system efficiency, and decentralized management, and has contributed to the introduction of results-based and sector-wide approaches into the sector, together with the other development partners. Against a background of the structural transformation driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and 4IR, the country partnership strategy for Bangladesh, 2021-2025 emphasizes the importance of improving human capital and employability with the support of digital and new technologies, while promoting inclusiveness and resilience. The strategy also stresses the need to enhance project readiness and timely implementation through continuous capacity building, knowledge exchange, and best practices.