Staff Reporter :
Educational institutions under secondary and higher education directorate are going to reopen next Sunday after a week of closure due to heatwave. The authorities, however, take some precautionary measures.
Also, the authorities decided to run academic activities on Saturdays, a weekly holiday, from 4 May until further notice. The education ministry published a gazette in the end on Thursday.
Although the educational institutes will reopen, they will have to maintain some precautionary steps. As part of the preparation, the students will have to refrain from all the outside-class activities and daily assembly will remain
suspended until further notice. Earlier, Professor ShahedulKhabirChowdhury, director (Administration and Colleges) of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education, said the decision was taken as the temperature is fluctuating across different areas of the country. Additionally, this is not the highest temperature ever recorded in Bangladesh.
That is why preparations have been taken to open all educational institutions, he said.
On 20 April, all schools, colleges, madrasah and technical educational institutions were shut till 28 April due to heatwave. The educational institutions were supposed to reopen from 21 April after Eid-ul-Fitr and other holidays but the closure was extended due to heatwave.
