BHP Director John Richards along with colleagues Manzoor Ahmed and Shahidul Islam recently published an op-ed on education reforms in Bangladesh’s leading English-language newspaper. They recommend urgent and short-term actions to return to a “new normal” with effective consultation processes to engage students, families and teachers. In the medium-term, they propose, “Teachers' professionalism and performance are the pivot of change in education.” They also propose increased education budgets; meaningful assessment of student learning; decentralized management, and involvement of industry experts to ensure graduates have the right skills. This is an ambitious agenda and the authors conclude, “The interim government is not expected to complete all the needed reforms. But if it realizes at least some of the key reforms and charts the way ahead for others, it will have done justice to the sacrifices of students and citizens during the July-August movement.” You can read about BHP support for primary education in our earlier blog posts.
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