Commending Bangladesh for its effort on education, UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova said that all the countries lagging behind in achieving the Education for All (EFA) goal can follow its example.
Bokova made the statement as an answer to the question of Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, Bangladesh Representative to the UNESCO Executive Board on Tuesday at the 196th session of the UNESCO Executive Board in Paris.
She said that Bangladesh is moving forward towards inclusive education within the prior-set target of 2015 due to the present government’s political will and commitment to the education.
She also lauded the role and commitment of Sheikh Hasina.
The UNESCO DG recalled Bangladesh’s achievement in MDGs and EFA well ahead of the 2015 , the target date to ac...
Bangladesh has not achieved a global goal of “education for all as a whole”, according to the Unesco’s latest report.
The country has been placed at 97
th among 113 countries in Education for All Development Index (EDI).
has been set for assessing if a country has achieved or close to achieve education for all.
Bangladesh belongs to the category of underperformers as the Unesco report said, “Too many countries will fail to reach the target of halving their 2000 adult illiteracy rate by 2015.”
The Unites Nations E...
The government has made swimming lessons compulsory in schools, to reduce the number of children who drown in the country’s many waterways.
According to UN figures, about 18,000 children between five and 17 die each year because they cannot swim.
The education ministry says rural ponds and lakes will be made suitable for lessons and university pools opened up.
But some say the directive will be hard to implement because of a lack of pools in urban areas.
Drowning has been described as a hidden epidemic in Bangladesh, one of th...
Cyclones have killed hundreds of thousands in this South Asian country over the last century, but in the last two decades the death toll has declined rapidly, thanks to the widespread rollout of early warning systems and shelters. The newest addition to that arsenal won’t just save Bangladeshis; it will educate them.
The three most destructive cyclones of the last 50 years struck Bangladesh with winds stronger than 135 miles per hour, but their effects varied considerably. A storm killed some 500,000 Bangladeshis in 1970, one left about 140,000 dead in 1991, and Cyclone Sidr resulted in 4,234 fatalities in 2007. This decline has been spurred by the Red Crescent Society’s development of a grass-roots network of volunteers who communicate a cyclone’s approach. The government’s investme...
The inauguration of UC Berkeley’s Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies took place Monday.
Although the center was established in 2013, because of logistical complexities, it officially opened Monday. Chancellor Nicholas Dirks presided over a ribbon-cutting ceremony. After the event, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC University — one of the universities
with which the center will partner — gave a guest lecture to celebrate the center’s launch.
The Chowdh...
The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of Chittagong and Rajshahi Medical College Act 2015 to provide the country with more expert physicians.
However, the Chittagong Medical College Hospital and Rajshahi Medical College Hospital will remain as it is.
The approval was given at a regular meeting of the cabinet held at the secretariat with prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
After the meeting, cabinet secretary M Musharraf Hussain Bhuiyan briefed reporters where he said that medical colleges of the tw...
