'Pre-primary schooling makes students competent'

Staff Correspondent
Researchers at a discussion on Saturday underscored the need for pre-primary schooling to raise competency of students in primary schools.

Children with pre-primary background performed significantly better than those without any in the achievement tests, researcher said quoting a study.

They were speaking at the Fifth Educational Researchers' Conference for Dissemination of Research Studies organised jointly by Unesco, Dhaka and Bangladesh Forum for Educational Development (BAFED) at the IDB Building in the city.