All educational institutions from secondary to tertiary levels under the education ministry are likely to reopen today.
The primary and mass education ministry reopened the educational institutions under it on August 14.
Major public universities, including Dhaka University, Chittagong University, and Rajshahi University, are yet to resume classes and examinations, though administrative offices reopened in the past week.
Earlier, the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate issued a press release on the night of August 5, saying that all government,聽 semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous offices, private establishments, and educational institutions would reopen on August 6.
It made the announcement hours after long-time ruler Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled to India amid a student-led mass uprising.
Though some schools reopened following the order, very few pupils attended classes, while many, especially the private ones, were taking classes online.
At least 16 public university vice-chancellors and other senior officials stepped down after August 5 as students at different universities gave them the ultimatum to do so.
Principals of different colleges across the country also applied for transfer following the student protest.
Different public universities and medical colleges, meanwhile, banned politics on campus.
Following the countrywide mass uprising the government closed all educational institutions in mid-July.
On July 16, the government announced the indefinite closure of all secondary and higher secondary-level educational institutions amid student protests seeking reform in the quota system for government service jobs.
The University Grants Commission of Bangladesh on the same day requested all public and private universities to keep their institutions closed and vacate students鈥� residential halls until further notice.
On the same day, the National University authorities also closed down all colleges under it.
The primary and mass education ministry announced the closure of government primary schools in phases between July 17 and July 20.
Due to the closure, the ongoing half-yearly assessment of the secondary level students had been suspended till date.
The authorities also deferred the ongoing Higher Secondary Certificate examinations by almost two months.
Against these backgrounds, the education ministry issued an order on August 15 saying that the chief adviser, Muhammad Yunus, had given his approval to start academic activities after opening the educational institutions under the ministry.
Currently, the country has around four crore students from pre-primary to tertiary levels, as per the Bangladesh Education Statistics 2022.
