Special funds needed to bring them back to classrooms: speakers
The government has to allocate a special fund to bring children who have dropped out, back to the classroom as many of them have been involved in income-generating work to help their families during the pandemic, speakers said at a webinar yesterday.
Over the years, the government has achieved great success in enrolling almost 100 percent children in school. But now it is a big challenge for the government to maintain this, they told the event titled "Education Sector Plan of SDG", by Campaign for Mass Education (CAMPe) and Darpan.
Speakers said, as educational institutions remained closed during the pandemic, the government arranged online and television class for school students. But 100 percent children could not be brought under this system, especially children from rural and marginal areas.
The government has to arrange special funds and properly use it to provide incentive to underprivileged children to enrol in school, they added.
The speakers also said the government also has to train teachers to prepare them for better quality online classes.
Abul Fazal Mir, deputy commissioner of Cumilla participated in the programme as chief guest while Rasheda K Chowdhury, former adviser to the caretaker government and executive director of CAMPe was present there as guest of honour. Eminent educationist Dr Monzur Ahmed chaired the session.
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