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Bangladesh
/ Education
Highest allocations
for education in the national budgets during the nineties show
that the government has attached topmost priority to human resource
development though education. The goal of ‘Education for All’
is being vigorously pursued in the country.
Compulsory
primary education, free education for girls up to class ten, stipends
for female students, food-for educational total literacy movement
and nationwide integrated education are some of the major programs
being the government in the education sector.
There
are 11 government and 18 non-government universities in the country.
The number of government and non-government medical colleges stand
at 1 3 and 5 respectively. There are 4 engineering colleges, 2845
colleges, institutes, 12553 secondary schools, and 78595 primary
schools.
To
make higher education accessible to all, an Open University has
been set up in the country. A National University has also been
set up to serve as an affiliating university colleges across the
country.
Alongside
the general system of education parallel system known as Madrasha
education which offers Islamic education to Muslim boys and girls.
Hindus and Buddhists also receive religious education at institutes
called Tol and Chatuspathi.
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