The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

British Council will launch a new project entitled "Connecting Classrooms" on January 23 linking schools between the UK and Bangladesh.

Connecting Classrooms aims to raise standards in teaching and learning by providing learning opportunities for young people through a cluster of 5-6 schools will work together and will be connected with cluster of UK based schools.

The schools will work together to design and implement curriculum-based projects.

Connecting Classrooms is a school-linking project. It will form horizontal linkages between Bangladeshi state and private schools and clusters of schools in the UK, said a British Council press release on Thursday.

Education Secretary M Momtajul Islam will inaugurate the programme as chief guest at 10:00 am on January 23 at the British Council's Fuller Road auditorium.

Dr Siddiqur Rahman, National Education Expert, and William Arnall-Culliford, Head of Press and Public Affairs, British High Commission will also be present on the occasion.