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Primary Schools

Govt to appoint 25,000 teachers

Staff Correspondent
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the government would appoint 25,000 primary' school teachers soon to resolve the country’s teacher crisis.
"We have already appointed 20,000 primary school teachers and we are taking preparation to appoint 25,000 more teachers within a short time," he told the newsmen after inauguration of the8th International Language and Development Conference at a city hotel.
Replying to a query, he said the government would increase the salary of registered non-government primary schools teachers.
Nahid said the number of registered non-govemment primary school teachers is around 1 lakh and they would get monthly salary equivalent to basic salary of government primary school teachers.
He said the government is working for implementing separate pay commission for teachers from primary to university level to eradicate salary discrimination.
The minister mentioned that the government has increased the salary of community primary school teachers toTk 1,400 from Tk 700.
The British Council in partnership with education and foreign ministries, DFID Bangladesh, UGC and IER of Dhaka University are organising the three-day long conference.
Replying to another query, the minister said the government has taken preparation to modernise the curriculum of qawmi madrasa education.
He said the government want to include modern education in the curriculum of madrasa education beside the religious studies so that madrasa students can apply it in their real life.
Speaking at conference as the chief guest, the minister stressed the need for addressing the issues and challenges related to language policy, gender and cultural identities. "Language is and will always be part of who we are, what we are and who should be aspire to be," Nahid said adding, "We need to be focussed on our development needs for the future and incorporate technology in teaching methods."
Pointing out die role of language movement in achieving the independence of Bangladesh, he said the conference will provide a platform for exploring all the issues as well as challenges related to language and development of the country.
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Stephen Evans said conference would open a window for a creative discussion between academics and experts.
About 220 persons from home and abroad are taking part in the conference aimed to provide an opportunity to address issues on language policy, gender, cultural identity and social dimensions of capacity building in the context ofthe developing world.
UGC Chairman Prof Nazrul Islam, Director of British Council Bangladesh Charles Nuttall OBE and Manager (Education and Society) of the council Raiqah Walie-Khan also spoke.