IDB to fund 10 million dollars for Bangladesh Madrassah modernization scheme
The Islamic Development Bank is providing Bangladesh a 10 million dollar grant to modernize the country’s traditional madrassah education system, according to newspaper reports.
The IDB support will be utilized in a project undertaken by the present Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led right-wing alliance government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, to produce science-minded madrassah students, the New Age newspaper reported on Saturday.
The Islamic Development Bank is going to donate 10 million dollars for the implementation of the modernization of madrassah education at secondary level. The government would contribute a nominal amount for the project, said an official.
The first-ever syllabus-based madrassah education in the then undivided Bengal was introduced in 1780 during the rule of the East India Company. Some minor changes were brought to the syllabus later on through individual initiatives at certain types of madrassah.
However, there is no curriculum as such for secondary and higher secondary madrassah education till date. And most of the Madrassah educated students are unable to get jobs in the competitive market nowadays.
The main objective of the project is to reduce the differences between madrassah and general education and produce skilled and productive citizens, according to the project proposal, which was submitted to the IDB recently.
The output of the project includes updating madrassah curriculum, improving textbooks, training madrassah teachers and science-minded madrassah students and helping them achieve skills to face challenges in the real world.
The inputs are reformation of the curriculum, construction of science laboratory buildings and supply equipment for facilitating science education, according to the proposal.
Laboratory buildings will be constructed in 64 madrassahs in 64 districts in the first phase and will supply scientific equipment to 515 madrassah by 2008 and 2009 under the project.
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education will implement the project under the supervision of the education ministry.
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board chairman, Professor Gazi Mohammad Ahsanul Kabir, who has prepared the project proposal, said the implementation would start in July.
The present condition of the madrassah curriculum is bad, he said. There are about 1400,000 students in secondary madrassahs across the country. 130,000 teachers are there in about 7,000 madrassahs.
The Bangladesh government provides 90 per cent of the salaries of teachers and employees of non-government secondary and higher secondary madrassahs which cost about Tk 600 crore per year.
Source: WebIndia123.Com (04.02.2006)
The Islamic Development Bank is providing Bangladesh a 10 million dollar grant to modernize the country’s traditional madrassah education system, according to newspaper reports.
The IDB support will be utilized in a project undertaken by the present Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led right-wing alliance government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, to produce science-minded madrassah students, the New Age newspaper reported on Saturday.
The Islamic Development Bank is going to donate 10 million dollars for the implementation of the modernization of madrassah education at secondary level. The government would contribute a nominal amount for the project, said an official.
The first-ever syllabus-based madrassah education in the then undivided Bengal was introduced in 1780 during the rule of the East India Company. Some minor changes were brought to the syllabus later on through individual initiatives at certain types of madrassah.
However, there is no curriculum as such for secondary and higher secondary madrassah education till date. And most of the Madrassah educated students are unable to get jobs in the competitive market nowadays.
The main objective of the project is to reduce the differences between madrassah and general education and produce skilled and productive citizens, according to the project proposal, which was submitted to the IDB recently.
The output of the project includes updating madrassah curriculum, improving textbooks, training madrassah teachers and science-minded madrassah students and helping them achieve skills to face challenges in the real world.
The inputs are reformation of the curriculum, construction of science laboratory buildings and supply equipment for facilitating science education, according to the proposal.
Laboratory buildings will be constructed in 64 madrassahs in 64 districts in the first phase and will supply scientific equipment to 515 madrassah by 2008 and 2009 under the project.
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education will implement the project under the supervision of the education ministry.
The National Curriculum and Textbook Board chairman, Professor Gazi Mohammad Ahsanul Kabir, who has prepared the project proposal, said the implementation would start in July.
The present condition of the madrassah curriculum is bad, he said. There are about 1400,000 students in secondary madrassahs across the country. 130,000 teachers are there in about 7,000 madrassahs.
The Bangladesh government provides 90 per cent of the salaries of teachers and employees of non-government secondary and higher secondary madrassahs which cost about Tk 600 crore per year.
Source: WebIndia123.Com (04.02.2006)
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