The education ministry is going to resume classes in educational institutions鈥攕chools, colleges, madrassahs and technical educational institutions 鈥� from April 28.
The seven-day closure of the educational institutions, from the primary to the secondary level, due to the ongoing heatwave alert, is scheduled to end on April 27.
The primary and mass education ministry, however, is yet to take any decision about resuming classes from April 28.
A release, issued by the Secondary and Higher Education Division under the ministry on Thursday evening, read that until further notice, classes would be held on Saturdays to cover up the learning gap caused by closure of classes.
Classes will be held on Saturdays also to gain the expected level of learning results under the new national curriculum, it continued.
The release also said that assemblies would be聽 suspended and academic activities outside the classrooms would be limited until the heatwave became bearable.
Primary and mass education ministry senior information officer Mahbubur Rahman Tuhin said that decision would be made about the primary schools on April 27.
鈥楾he ministry will consider primary level students with sensitivity,鈥� he added.
The primary and mass education ministry on April 20 issued a press release to keep all the government primary schools, Shishu Kalyan Trust schools and Bureau of Non-Formal Education learning centres closed for seven days from April 21 to April 27.
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, under the education ministry, also issued a letter on the day directing parties concerned to keep all government and non-government educational institutions under it closed till April 25.
Dhaka University, Islamic University in Kushtia, National University and Jagannath University also started online classes this week.
United News of Bangladesh reported that the Bangladesh Meteorological Department has issued a fresh warning saying that that the ongoing heatwave is likely to persist for 72 more hours starting on Thursday morning.
This announcement follows earlier alerts issued on April 19 and April 22.
BMD has also announced that a very severe heatwave is sweeping over the districts of Chuadanga and Jashore and severe heatwave is sweeping over the rest part of the Khulna division and the districts of Tangail, Faridpur, Gopalganj, Manikganj, Rajshahi, Pabna, Dinajpur and Saidpur and it may continue.
On Thursday, Bangladesh鈥檚 maximum temperature of 42.4 C was recorded in Jashore.
