The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) has outlined a package of digital, administrative, environmental and student-welfare measures for the education sector.
Director General Khan Moinuddin Al Mahmud Sohel said digitisation was being given priority to improve administrative speed and transparency.
DSHE said it had decentralised administrative and financial authority to director and deputy-director levels and modernised its correspondence-receiving section.
It said its Education Management Information System is planned for upgrading through security testing, audit and cloud migration.
The directorate said the upgrade is intended to support MPO processing for private teachers, updates to government teachers’ records, vacancy lists and institutional data.
DSHE also said it had started an automated transfer process for MPO-listed private teachers and was developing separate software for recommendations on other entry-level MPO appointments.
It said action had begun against teachers and staff alleged to hold forged certificates, while steps were being taken on reinstatement and outstanding benefits for private-sector personnel it says were unfairly dismissed over the past 17 years.
For school oversight, DSHE said CCTV cameras at every school had been connected to a central server for supervision by its monitoring units.
The directorate said it had planned a One Child, One Tree campaign with a target of planting 50 million trees, and said 88,000 trees had been planted at 29,000 institutions under a secondary-education project.
It said six proposed schemes sent to the ministry include a one-teacher-one-tablet initiative, expanded scouting, teacher development, an education institute, a new DSHE building and an integrated student-welfare programme.
Planning and Development Director Mir Jahida Naznin said DSHE had sent 21 new project proposals and 18 concept notes to the Education Ministry.
The proposals include free Wi-Fi, multimedia classrooms, a third-language component, technical education, free school uniforms, support for learners with disabilities and a dedicated education channel, DSHE said.