WB approves US$300m to help Bangladesh improve secondary education

WB approves US$300m to help Bangladesh improve secondary education

The Board of Executive Directors of World Bank (WB) has approved US$300 million to help Bangladesh recover from learning losses incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The support will also introduce complementary online learning blended with in-class education to build system resilience, improve learning outcomes and teaching quality and reduce the dropout rate in secondary education.
"Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in education over the years and was among the first few developing countries to achieve gender parity in lower secondary school. But, the prolonged school closure during the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profoundly negative impact on learning and forced many poor girls to leave school," said Abdoulaye Seck, WB country director for Bangladesh and Bhutan.