Global Journal of Management and Business Research, A: Administration and Management, Volume 22 Issue 4

Tazia Hossain Abstract- Due to the geographic location Bangladesh is remarked as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. These disasters have impacts on to the economy, the environment, national development and also education institution of Bangladesh. This study found that due to the disaster educational institutions come across enormous losses. Climate change and disaster causes huge losses to educational materials. It is also found that girl students are more likely to irregular than boys and male teachers are more likely to irregular than female teachers. In most of the affected institutions, the evaluation of report on the losses is not maintained in a structured way. Government should broadcast more awareness program about disaster and climate change. Education institutions should be given proper guide line to maintain evaluation report for long term disaster risk management. Keywords: disaster, education materials and institution, irregular attendance of boys and girls as well as male and female teachers. I. I ntroduction o achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 4(SDG 4) and the educational development Education Ministry of Bangladesh undertook important activities such as supplying of books up to secondary level, education aids, foods, play items, post disaster counseling etc. The Compulsory Primary Education Act was been approved in 1990. Primary education is free and compulsory for all children up to class 5. In Bangladesh, the education system has been divided into 3 levels (6). The primary education is the five years of schooling from grade 1 to grade 5. The secondary education starts from 6 to grade 10 which is completed by the Secondary Board Examination S.S.C. (School Secondary Certificate). The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) is the third level of public education ends at grade twelve. Due to flat and low-lying geography all most every year Bangladesh is encountered with different disasters (like Surge, cyclone, flood, salinity, water Author: Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Notre Dame University Bangladesh. e-mail: tazia@ndub.edu.bd logging, river erosion, drought, earthquake etc) which lead to vulnerable situations (1-4). II. L iterature R eview According to Bangladesh Educational Statistics 2018 reports, 14269 educational institutions are found in disaster prone area. 1131 primary schools, 7240 secondary school, 547 school & college, 1355 college and 3996 madrasahs were affected by different disaster. Among them 758 were government institutions 13511 were non-government institutions. Banbeis , 2018 data reported that,5315 educational institutions did not able to recover the losses on buildings, 5153 on furniture, 1513 on roof damaged, 4925 on door window broken down, 2188 on water supply, 3468 on sanitation, 3382 on connecting rood and 630 other losses did not able to recover after disaster. The main objective of the study is to explore • The losses on educational materials and losses that the institution did not able to recover. • The comparison between the irregular attendance of boys and girls in the institution after disaster. • The comparison between the irregular attendance of male and female teachers in the institution after disaster. • The current status of evaluation report done and sent by the institution for long term disaster risk management. III. D ata and M ethodology This study data has been extracted data from the Bangladesh Education Statistics 2018 and on Bangladesh Education Statistics 2020. The number of institutions is recorded in disaster prone area. The institutions are primary school (govt.), junior secondary school (non- govt.), secondary school (govt. and non- govt.), school and college (govt. and non- govt.), college (govt. and non- govt.), madrasah (govt. and non- govt.). The number of observations in each institution is recorded. Using this information overall percentage is estimated for each category. T 81 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXII Issue IV Version I Year 2022 ( ) A © 2022 Global Journals Climate Change and Disaster Impact on Education Institution: Evidence based on Bangladesh Bureau of Education Information and Statistics (Banbeis)