This chapter underscores the importance for obtaining a proper understanding of the outcomes primary education system in Bangladesh produces. It also emphasises that the provision of primary education is an important institutional issue as it requires effective mechanisms for the recruitment, training, and retention of teachers; the construction and maintenance of schools and other infrastructure; the design and implementation of the curriculum; the monitoring of progress, through inspections and examinations; and the creation of a learning environment. This chapter analyses the challenges related to the coexistence of various actors in the primary education system, the inadequate allocation of resources, the lack of incentives to attract high-quality teachers, the shortage of trained teachers, the low quality of the educational infrastructure, the poor curriculum design, and the flawed examination system. This chapter relates some of these challenges to the public sector in general in Bangladesh. Finally, it recommends relevant measures to overcome the institutional challenges of public spending in primary education and to improve the quality of services.

This chapter underscores the importance for obtaining a proper understanding of the outcomes primary education system in Bangladesh produces. It also emphasises that the provision of primary education is an important institutional issue as it requires effective mechanisms for the recruitment, training, and retention of teachers; the construction and maintenance of schools and other infrastructure; the design and implementation of the curriculum; the monitoring of progress, through inspections and examinations; and the creation of a learning environment. This chapter analyses the challenges related to the coexistence of various actors in the primary education system, the inadequate allocation of resources, the lack of incentives to attract high-quality teachers, the shortage of trained teachers, the low quality of the educational infrastructure, the poor curriculum design, and the flawed examination system. This chapter relates some of these challenges to the public sector in general in Bangladesh. Finally, it recommends relevant measures to overcome the institutional challenges of public spending in primary education and to improve the quality of services.