Education

Economic and Social Analysis of Primary Education in Bangladesh: A Study of BRAC Interventions and Mainstream Schools

Alia Ahmad
Iftekharul Haque

BRAC, July 2011

Bangladesh has achieved significant progress in enrolment in primary schools including gender parity. Currently, two major problems are dropout before completing primary education and poor quality of education with low attainment of basic competencies. These problems are especially acute among children of poor families. While the government of Bangladesh has the major responsibility of primary education, and it aims at universal access to education through government schools, the needs of the very poor are largely catered by non-formal and religious schools.

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Educational Disparity in East and West Pakistan, 1947-71: Was East Pakistan Discriminated Against?

MOHAMMAD NIAZ ASADULLAH

The Bangladesh Development Studies
Vol. XXXIII, September 2010, No.3

This paper documents the regional divide in educational facilities between East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and West Pakistan between 1947 and 1971. During this period, the total number of primary schools in East Pakistan declined, leading to overcrowding of existing schools and classrooms. On the other hand, despite being endowed with fewer schools, West Pakistan surpassed East Pakistan in the total number of primary schools, and in teacher-student ratios.

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Aid Volatility and the Pattern of Education Spending in Bangladesh

Author: Ishraq Ahmed
Publisher: Bangladesh Development Studies, June 2011

Bangladesh, with significant dependence on foreign aid after Independence especially for relief and reconstruction purposes, has diversified aid inflows over time to meet the country’s increasing development needs. Foreign aid, particularly to the education sector, has ,however, declined over the years.

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Science as an Institution: setting priorities in a new socio-economic context

Partha Dasgupta
June 1999
(Revised: March 2000)

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I don’t imagine that Science and Technology were ever as separate as I am making them out to be. My reason for making a sharp distinction between them, nonetheless, is that it has become harder and harder to distinguish the two in recent decades. The gradual merging of the two institutions has had costs, as the underlying norms in Science have come under stress from market pressures applied by Technology. As an institution, Science has strong views on plagarism, publishing

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Sector synthesis of post-evalution findings in education sector r

Asian Development Bank
August 1994

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The Sector Synthesis of Post-Evaluation Findings (SSPF) provides an analysis and synthesis of the Bank's post-evaluation experience and identifies important issues and lessons learned in a given sector which can be used in improving the formulation, implementation and performance of future projects in the sector. This Report presents a synthesis of post-evaluation findings in the Education Sector and is based primarily on the review of the findings of postevaluation reports prepared by the

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