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Bangladesh’s interim government has scrapped the posts of music and physical education teachers in government-run primary schools, yielding to sustained pressure from Islamist groups who denounced the initiative as “un-Islamic". The decision marks a sharp reversal from earlier plans introduced under Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus’s administration to promote cultural education alongside religious and academic studies.

The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education announced the change on Monday, stating that the new recruitment rules would exclude the posts of assistant teachers for music and physical education.

“Although the rules issued last August had four categories of posts, two categories have been included in the amendment. The posts of assistant teachers for mu

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