EFFECTIVE EDUCATION MANAGEMENT AT SECONDARY LEVEL IN BANGLADESH: AN ALL-INCLUSIVE APPROACH

Education, being one of the vital factors for the growth of human potentials plays the most important role to build the economy of a country like Bangladesh. In the entire gamut, secondary education builds the foundation of national education. The main focus of the present paper is to analyze the determinants (i.e., academic results, co-curricular activities, students’ enrollment, teachers’ job satisfaction and students’ attendance) of secondary education management system along with the means that may contribute positively to take this sector to a newer height. The study area encompasses the secondary education system in Bangladesh that has been manifested within a time period from the liberation to 2019. The objective of the study is to showcase the current state of secondary education in Bangladesh and simultaneously to delineate the ways to improve upon.  The participants of this study include the teachers, students, parents, headmaster and managing committee. Current state of this sector has been figured out with recent data. It has also pointed out the challenges under four heads namely legislative, financial, perceptional and logistic challenges on the way to materialization program. The study wraps up with a few feasible recommendations.