Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board () or Alia Madrasah Education Board started its activity independently in 1979. With the passage of time in Bangladeshi

madrasah Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , ), sometimes romanized as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning ...

education several amendments have come to pass. In 1978

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and

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faculties were included at the ''Alim'' () level. In 1980 ''Fazil'' () degrees were granted the same standard of education as

Higher Secondary School Certificate Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC), Higher Secondary School Certificate, Higher Secondary Education Certificate (HSEC) or Intermediate Examination is a secondary education qualification in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. It is equivalent to the f ...

(HSC) degrees but this was changed in later years with ''Dakhil'' () level having the equivalency of

Secondary School Certificate Secondary School Certificate (SSC), Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) or Matriculation examination, is a public examination in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Maldives and Nepal conducted by educational boards for the successful completi ...

(SSC) since 1985, and ''Alim'' being considered as the HSC equivalent since 1987. Humanities, science, business and

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has been included with madrasah education. Meanwhile, a law has been passed for ''Fazil'' and ''Kamil'' () levels to be considered equivalent with bachelor's and master's degrees in general education.

Background

Alia Madrasah was established in

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in 1780 by the

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through Headteacher Majduddin and this later formed the Madrasah Education Board of

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. Madrasah education was then started formally. Late

A. K. Fazlul Huq Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq (26 October 1873 – 27 April 1962), popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla, was a Bengalis, Bengali lawyer and politician who served as the first and longest Prime Minister of Bengal, prime minister of Bengal during the Britis ...

the prime minister declared in a prize giving ceremony is

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Alia Madrasah in 1939, "I want the spread of Madrasah Education should be modernized and an

Islamic Arabic University Islamic Arabic University () is a public university in Mohammadpur Thana of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It operates through a number of ''fazil'' (bachelor) and ''kamil'' (master) level madrasahs all over Bangladesh instead of a localized campus. The ...

should be established". To materialize this declaration of sher-E-Bangla a committee named Moula Box was formed. This committee advises on the development of madrasah education. In

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after the independence of

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many commissions were formed for the development of madrasah education. Among them in 1949 the "West Bengal Educational System Reconstruction Committee" was formed and in 1963-64 the name of

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University was mentioned. In 1971, after the independence of

Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...

, steps were taken for the modernization of madrasah education.

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were made compulsory. In 1978 the Madrasah Education Board was formed under Ordinance for the Modernization of Madrasah Education. The board has faced difficulties in recruiting teachers for science related classes. In 2017 Bangladesh government removed references to Jihad from books of Madrasah Education Board.

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