No decision yet on PEC examinations

By Dhaka Mirror : dhakamirror.com
The government is yet to decide whether the Primary Education Completion Examination would be held this year.
State minister for primary and mass education Md Zakir Hossain said this at a press conference on Thursday.
He also said that they would first overcome the learning loss caused in past two years and then they would take decision on holding the examinations.
The students would be informed about the decision later while the state minister urged the students to continue their studies.
The ministry organised the press conference at the conference room in the secretariat on the preparation for recruitment test for assistant teachers in primary schools.
Following the outbreak of Covid pandemic in Bangladesh in March 2020, the PEC examinations for Class V students were not held in 2020 and 2021.
Replying to a question Md Zakir Hossain also said that in the new national curriculum, which is scheduled to be implemented in phases from 2023, the PEC examinations were not included.
Quality teachers are necessary for quality education while transparency and accountability are also necessary in the recruitment procedure, he added.
The recruitment test will be held in three phases while the test for the first phase will be held on April 22 for 22 districts between 11:00am and 12:00pm. This year the number of total candidates is 13,09,461.
The press conference was attended, among others, by the primary and mass education ministry secretary Aminul Islam Khan and Directorate of Primary Education director general Alamgir Mohammed Monsurul Alam.