Dr. Rehena Khatun, Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Govt. of Bangladesh
Dr. Rehena Khatun
Professor, Zoology
Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Govt. of Bangladesh

35 years’ service experiences in both government and non-government sectors in Bangladesh, mostly in education field. Joined in Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) General Education Cadre in 1996 and got Post Retirement Leave (PRL) in March 2025. PhD in Entomology, Zoology from Institute of Biological Sciences (IBSc), Rajshahi University, Bangladesh in 2010. Completed so many national and international training programs from Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe, Thailand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

Worked as a Vice Principal (Professor, Zoology) in Carmichael College, Rangpur, MoE, Bangladesh. Responsibilities were overseeing day-to-day operations of college, ensuring safe, inclusive, equitable learning environment for both students and teachers/staffs, collaborating with parents, teachers, workers, officials, students to promote IE and gender- related challenges, managing conflicts between teachers-students, student-students, staff-students ensuring a fair approach to dispute resolution. Assisted the principal and acted as interim principal for ensuring gender-inclusive decision making and equitable college governance. Previously, I have been blessed with many long term roles such as Deputy Project Director, Directorate of Inspection & Audit (DIA), MoE, Bangladesh, Assistant Project Director (Policy, Training & Monitoring and Focal Point of Gender and Inclusive education) at ‘2nd Teaching Quality Improvement in Secondary Education’ project, Assistant Director of Human Resource Management (HRM) Unit of ‘Secondary Education Sector Development Project (SESDP)’, Assistant Professor, Zoology in Jagannath University, Dhaka; Lecturer, Zoology in Govt. Jagannath College, Dhaka; Research Officer and Focal Point of Women in Development (WID) at National Curriculum and Textbook Board, Dhaka, and Lecturer, Zoology in Rangpur Govt. College, MoE, Bangladesh. These roles have given me the opportunity to gather in-depth knowledge about both national and international education policy, different domains, secondary & higher education curriculum design, review, dissemination, evaluation, syllabus/textbook preparation/evaluation etc., subject based knowledge, pedagogy of classroom teaching, question moderation, student assessment/evaluation, teachers training institution’s/teachers’ skill development, teaching quality improvement, planning for capacity building of govt. officials, project planning, implementation, management, monitoring, evaluation, project completion report of both govt. and ADB. Expertise have in generating QPR, GAP, SECPF, Due Diligence, Environmental Safeguard, DMF Report; local and overseas training modality development; FGD; coordination with stakeholders, PCU, DSHE, MoE personnel, relevant schemes and development partners.

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