EIABD

The Project aims to provide English as a new technical skill to 25 million primary, secondary school children and adult learners. The effort will be to bring innovative ways of learning communicative English using modern technology.

In schools the Project will operate nation-wide and will prioritise reaching out to girls and women. It will look to empower primary and secondary school teachers with new skills to impact on their classroom teaching.  

Effective models will be developed and trialed in an introductory phase, and then taken to scale and subsumed where appropriate within ongoing and future programmes at the primary and secondary school and adult education levels. These include the Primary Education Development Programme-II (PEDP II); the Total Quality Improvement Project (TQI) which concentrates on Teacher Training and the new Secondary Education Development Project (SEDIP); and Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project (SEQAP), which will concentrate on curriculum and textbooks.

The Project will use television to increase access to learning materials, decrease barriers to learning English and increase positive perceptions of the learning experience by expanding English language programming, thereby increasing the opportunity for learners to hear and practice English; and providing innovative drama and factual programmes that create new opportunities to access English language learning materials. These programmes will be part of a multi-media approach that will provide new access to learning opportunities through the broadcast programmes as well as mobile phones and the Internet. The new adult education programmes will be developed in line with the Bangladesh Non-Formal Education Framework (BNFEF).