Staff Reporter :
The Ministry of Education will hold a meeting on Sunday to take a decision on the reopening of educational institutions across the country.
Mahbub Hossain, Secretary of the Secondary and Higher Education Division of the Education Ministry said a high-level meeting led by Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni would be held on September 5 to take a final decision in this regard.
“Students lag far behind as educational institutions have remained closed for long. Sunday’s meeting will discuss different initiatives to minimize the academic losses,” he said.
The meeting will finalise different plans including a roadmap to minimize Covid-inductive academic losses, forming health safety guidelines and completing HSC, SSC exams. Technical committee members of the education ministry, primary and mass education ministry and
health ministry will be present in the meeting.
According to sources at the ministry, the National Technical Advisory Committee opined to reopen educational institutions if covid-19 infection drops below 10 percent. Meanwhile, Bangladesh has seen a rapid drop in the Covid-19 infection rate recently.
The overall infection rate in the country is currently 12 pc. Experts hoped that the infection rate would fall below 10 percent in the coming days.
But the education ministry plans to reopen schools after infection level comes down to 7-8 percent.
There are 1.5 lakh educational institutions with five crore students from primary to higher education in the country. The students mostly remained out of their academic study since March 17 when the educational institutions were closed due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Many institutions have been conducting online classes and other means of distance learning during the suspension of academic activities.
The government extended the closure multiple times, but it has been repeatedly said that the schools and colleges would reopen only after the improvement of the Covid-19.
