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kafi:
Formal Education: Currently environmental education is offered in primary schools. Primary education is compulsory for five years. To encourage education of girls in rural areas they pay no tuition fees up to grade. An integrated subject called Environmental Studies was been introduced into the primary and junior secondary syllabus in 1978.

The syllabus of Environmental Studies for grade 3, includes the causes and effects of degradation of the environment, the importance and methods of conservation, prevention of waste and pollution and conservation of water resources (Sharafuddin, 1990). The main principles for framing the Environmental Studies syllabus for Primary School are: ◊ The pupils will able to observe and know their immediate environment and develop a scientific attitude in solving their everyday problems; ◊ Study of separate subjects like biology, physics, chemistry, geography, geology, social studies, etc does not help young pupils understand the wholeness of the environment, so an integrated subject is very important; and ◊ Knowledge about proper use of environmental resources and of their conservation is essential for the maintenance of human life and civilisation. The topics included in the primary and a secondary curriculum indicate the coverage of environmental studies in the formal school system. Although the environment receives substantial coverage in primary education, the coverage at lower secondary school (grades 6-8) is rather sketchy. Worse still, activity-oriented methods of teaching are totally absent in the present school curriculum due to: ⇒ Insufficient adequately qualified teachers, ⇒ Lack of basic educational infrastructure such as suitable classrooms and work space, ⇒ Lack of educational equipment, audio-visual materials, etc, and ⇒ Teacher training which fails to provide knowledge of the environment and skills required for effective environmental education.

jafar_bre:
sir .

its a great post.I have learnt a lot of things  .....

thanks sir

JAFAR IQBAL
Department of Real Estate

kafi:

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kafi:
Higher Education: Prior to1996, environmental education in the tertiary sector was rather disjointed and poorly developed. In 1996 Khulna University first offered a 4-year undergraduate degree in Environmental Science. It was the first public university to offer environmental education in Bangladesh.

Sylhet University (another public university) has offered a 4-year undergraduate degree Civil and Environmental Engineering since 1995. Some non-government universities have opened environmental education programs, such as Environmental Studies at North-South University (1995), and Environmental Science and Management at the Independent University (1996) and Environmental Science and Disaster management at Daffodil International University. Recently Dhaka University and Jahangir Nagar University (both public universities) opened undergraduate courses.

In the environment courses described here, student enrollment is very competitive and places available are limited (only 25-40 students in each course). Prospective students need to pay expensive enrollment fees in the non-government universities, so only richer guardians can afford this education. However, facilities for research and fieldwork are inadequate in all of these universities. In addition to these specialized courses all public universities in Bangladesh offer Ecology units in their B.Sc. and honors degrees with Botany or Zoology majors. At post-graduate level, there is a compulsory paper on Ecology in post-graduate Botany and Zoology programs. M.Sc courses in Environmental Management and Earth Science have been offered in Departments of Geography or Geology in some universities. Relatively better environment related units are offered in M.Sc. programs (some times undergraduate level also) in Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Khulna University’s School of Life Sciences and the Civil Engineering Department of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Environmental Engineering courses at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels are offered at BUET. The Bangladesh Institutes of Technology (BITs) also offer environmental engineering units within their undergraduate civil engineering courses. Polytechnic Institutes offer sanitary engineering units in the final year of three year civil engineering diploma courses. In addition, various institutes like the Public Health Training Institute, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Social Welfare Institute and Health Education Bureau also offer short-term sanitary engineering units for practitioner engineers, doctors, sanitary officers and social workers.

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papelrezwan:
Great post on Environment.....

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