Saturday, November 23, 2024

Children with disabilities demand friendly schools 

Assert their constitutional rights Children with disabilities yesterday called for creating friendly atmosphere for them in mainstream schools, saying education was their constitutional right. At a roundtable, speakers urged the government to ensure training for all the teachers to give extra care to such children at school.

Education to be gender neutral

The government has initiated a drive to empower the third gender by allowing them to enroll for primary education and skill-development projects. The programme, sponsored by the department of social service (DSS), will be launched on a pilot basis in seven districts on Tuesday. “We’ll introduce the programme in Dhaka, Chittagong, Dinajpur, Patuakhali, Khulna, Bagura

80pc nat’l minority children drop out of pry education

About four in five students, which accounts 80 per cent, of the national minority children dropout of primary education mainly because of linguistic problems and discriminatory behaviours, researches and experts said. The national drop-out rate in primary education is 45, according to the Bangladesh Primary Education Annual Sector Performance Report 2009