Dhaka, Feb 22 (UNB) - The government is working to prepare new pay scales for the teachers to mitigate their financial problems and encourage them more in nation-building activities, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said Monday.

“More financial facilities along with higher social status will be ensured for the teachers in the country,” he said at a function at the Teachers’ Training College (TTC) in the city, marking its centenary celebrations.

Addressing the function as chief guest, the Education Minister noted that it’s the teachers who will prepare the young generation as skilled and educated citizens with good character. They would have to play significant role in building a prosperous Bangladesh by imparting proper education to the country’s young generation, he said.

“So, it’s essential for the teachers to have modern and quality training,” Nahid said, adding that the present government would soon finalize the new education policy with a view to building the young generation with modern, standard and quality education.

He said that the government is working to prepare new curriculum for ensuring more standard and quality education in the country, as it is not possible to achieve the goal with the existing syllabus.

“Some 42 percent students drop out at the secondary level,” he said, adding that various programmes have been taken to check the drop out rate.

The Education Minister pledged to fully eradicate corruption from the education sector, saying that the government would form a management team comprising efficient, transparent, dynamic and incorruptible persons.

Education secretary Syed Ataur Rahman presided over the function, also addressed by Barrister Fazle Nur Tapash MP, Prof. Noman-ur Rashid, Director General of Secondary and Higher education and TTC Principal (acting) SM Abu Sayeed.