Active participation of politicians stressed

More attention and active participation of politicians are needed for overall improvement of standard of education in the country, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday.
Media should play a more active role for promoting the country's education sector rather than focusing only social problems, they said.
They made the remarks at the roundtable styled "Primary Education of Bangladesh: Principles, Influence, Ownership" organised by Institute of Governance Studies (IGS), an affiliated organisation of Brac University, at Brac Centre Inn in the capital.
Brac's Programme Head of Educational Research Unit Samir Ranjan Nath said, "The political will is still absence in promoting education sector, even there is no discussion on education in the parliament."
The government should rethink the existing system of providing fund to the sector, he said adding that the government schools were failing to ensure quality education.
IGS Senior Adviser Dr Manzoor Ahmed said the government should set up a statutory permanent education commission to improve quality of education.
Dhaka University's Institute of Education and Research of Director Dr Abul Ehsan, Planning Ministry's Joint Chief for Education Wing Nurul Hoque Majumder, National Front of Teachers and Employees leader Kazi Faruque Ahmed, and Jahangirnagar University (JU) former vice-chancellor Prof Kazi Saleh Ahmed, among others, spoke on the occasion.