Compulsory primary
education, free education for girls up to class ten,
stipends for female students, food-for-education, total
literacy movement and nationwide integrated non-formal
education are some of the major characteristics of the
education sector Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has 21 government
and 51 non-government universities. The number of govt. and
non-govt. medical colleges stand at 13 and 5 respectively.
There are 4 engineering colleges, 2845 colleges, 20
polytechnic institutes, 12553 secondary schools, and 787595
primary schools.
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