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Separate pay commission for teachers soon

Staff Correspondent
The government would soon form a separate pay commission for teachers from primary to university levels, said Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday.
"A process has already started to form the commission," he said after launching a five-year long project titled Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP)' organised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) at a city hotel.
Corruption, irregularities and misappropriation in the education sector must stop, he said adding that his ministry would try' its best to abolish the malpractices in the sector.
The UGC will implement the Tk 681 crore project jointly financed by the World Bank and Bangladesh government with an objective to enhance the tertiary standard education in the country.
Speaking as the chief guest, the minister said the government would try its best to increase salary, facilities and dignity of teachers as they hold greater responsibility of building the nation with devotion.
"We want higher education of global standard and it is a big challenge for us," he said adding that quality teachers are the key factor in this respect.
Nahid also said the government has taken some measures to stop drop-outs at the primary level in underprivileged regions like hill tracts, chars, tea gardens and monga affected areas.
"If necessary', we would raise stipends up to 100 percent from the current 40 percent and increase other facilities to encourage children to attend schools and reduce the drop-out rate,* he added.
The minister said the government wants to introduce a uniform curriculum in the primary level across the country' to bring an end to standard discriminations.
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"Apart from their own syllabus, the English medium schools and madrasas will have to follow the curriculum.'he added.
Mentioning around 42 percent students dropped out from school before their SSC examinations this year he said the government has already initiated to provide free textbooks to secondary-level students to reduce the number of drop-outs.
Regarding the HEQEP, he said the project, after being implemented, will ensure proper educational environ-
ment, enhance research programmes and ensure modern communication among different universities.
Eminent academician Prof AM Harun-ar-Rashid urged the government to make the educational institutions free from the clutches of politics.
Emphasising science education, he said there should be a central research laboratory and library in the country to boost the qualitative improvements.
UGC Chairman Prof Nazrul Islam said the project covers all the universities of the country and it will help
enhance the quality of academic research and innovative teaching.
The project will provide research fund and other facilities to the universities to generate large number of capable and competent human resources to face the global challenges, he said.
UGC Member Prof Tajul Islam gave an overview of the project while HEQEP project director Ruknud-Deen Ahmed, World Bank representative Mohammad A Toure and UGC Member Prof Atful Hye Shibly also spoke on the occasion.