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Out-of-school children: A promise yet to be fulfilled

Today, as the Millennium Development Goals draw to a close and the development community is thinking of new development targets, many children are not learning in school. But, in addition, more than 120 million children and young adolescents still remain out of school. That is almost one in ten children of primary school age, and one in seven children of lower secondary school age. For these children, the right to education remains a distant dream. children out of schoolPerhaps, most alarmingly, data show a steady ...

Fighting inequality at preschools in BD

Shanta* is only four years old, but already she loves school. Every morning, her mother walks her to the small pre-primary facility in Mohonpur village, about 140 km away from Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, and leaves her in the care of a young female teacher, who oversees the day’s activities: storytelling, drama, reciting poetry. 20140826_111607-629x472The little girl’s mother, Mosammet Laily Begum, is a housewife of humble means. She and her husband, a rickshaw puller who earns about 100 dollars each month cartin...

Bangladesh becomes 60th GPE partner

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) says its "developing country partners" are making progress in reaching the millions of children around the world who are not going to school. educationThe GPE released the Results For Learning Report 2014/15 as it announced Bangladesh has become its 60th developing country partner - which makes it eligible for a grant of up to $100million over three years. Bangladesh is aiming to make its pre-primary and primary school system more efficient and inclusive. Mostafizur Rahman, the country’s Ministe...

Laptop loan for girl students    

The government has taken an initiative to provide loan to second year students of Eden Girls' University College at a lower interest rate for purchasing laptops. The decision was taken at a tripartite meeting held on Thursday at the office of the Principal of Eden Girls University Collage, aiming to facilitate their entry into enormous web-based knowledge bank making the best use of Information Communication Technology (ICT). english medium schollEducation Secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan, Principal of Eden Collage Prof...

Bangladesh becomes 60th developing country to join GPE

This week, Bangladesh became the 60th developing country partner of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). Working with GPE partners based in Bangladesh, the country has articulated its education priorities for the coming years including improving education for 19 million Bangladeshi children through more than education100,000 kindergartens, primary public schools and schools run by civil society organizations. As a GPE member country, Bangladesh is now eligible to apply for a Program Implementation Grant in the amount of up to ...

New drive toward universal primary education

Less than three years before a turn-of-the-millennium promise by world leaders to ensure that all children can attend primary school becomes due, 61 million still have no classroom to go to. educationhere has been progress since 1999, when 106 million children were out of school worldwide, according to the United Nations. But momentum has flagged in the past five years, and tough economic times mean education aid to the poorest countries is dipping. Three quarters of out-of-school children live in either sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, an...
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