Primary and Mass Education Secretary Farid Ahmed on Tuesday said that four regional offices of the National Academy for Primary Education (NAPE) will be set up across the country to bring dynamism and expand the research activities of the academy.
“Initiative has been taken to amend the existing NAPE law and make it time-befitting to this end,” he said while speaking at a seminar at Primary Teacher's Training Institute (PTI) auditorium here.
NAPE organized the seminar where four research reports- Bangla Reading Fluency: A Way Out to Improve the Situation; Setting Reading Fluency Benchmark in Bangla for the Students of Grade 3 and Grade 5; Measuring Teacher Effectiveness for Primary Teachers in Bangladesh and Weakness of Grade Three Students in Mathematics: Causes and Remedies- were presented.
Farid said apart from NAPE headquarters in Mymensingh, setting up its four regional offices will establish itself as a top level institution in carrying out education and research activities.
NAPE Director General Md Shah Alam presided over the seminar while Director General of the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) Shah Rezwan Hayat spoke, among others, at the event.
