Government will recruit 37,672 teachers for introducing pre-primary education in every primary schools, said primary and mass education minister Afsarul Ameen.
'We will soon recruit these teachers to make the planned pre-primary education system a success,' he said.
The minister said this while speaking at a workshop organised by National Curriculum and Textbook Board on pre-primary curriculum at LGED auditorium in the city on Monday.
Among others, secretary of primary and mass education ministry AKM Abdul Awal Mazumder and NCTB chairman Mostafa Kamal Uddin spoke at the programme.
Afsarul said that pre-primary education was important to prepare a child physically and mentally for primary education.
The National Education Policy 2010 recommended introducing one-year pre-primary education for children over five years of age.
From 2011, the government introduced pre-primary education for children in some government primary schools.
But the curriculum was not finalised yet. With the recommendation of the workshop, the curriculum for pre-primary education will be finalised.
Source : New Age
