BANBEIS - Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics

Background:
Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information & Statistics (BANBEIS) is a central depository of Bangladesh government for the collection, dissemination and provider to all stakeholders. It started its activities as an attached department of Ministry of Education.

Vision:
To build quality and standard education statistics, to contribute for the development of education sector as well as national development through data management of education.

Mission:

• To ensure current data through collection of data and prepare database.
• To maintain information flow through preparing and providing demand based information
• To find the indicators by estimating of Millennium Development Goals’ setting indicators.
• To help to reduce poverty through scaling inputs in education against  poverty.
• To develop educational management level incorporating ICT education through giving training on ICT

Scope of Activities

• In national level, BANBEIS is responsible for the collection, dissemination, documentation and publishing of educational information.
• It conducts National Education Survey (NES), Sample Education Survey (SES) of post-primary education (PPE).
• To perform different research on education
• To Provide educational information to the stakeholders, researcher of national and international, or the national and international organizations
• It acts as a National Documentation Center for Education.
• To maintain a library enriched with national and international journals, periodicals, encyclopedia and research papers.
• To establish and maintain database on educational institutes and its teachers, and GIS school mapping
• As an excellent training center with the help of BKITCE, it helps to develop human resources by giving training on ICT.

Organizational Characteristics

• Professionally managed  organization
• It has a statistics division, documentation, library and publication division, computer unit and administrative unit.
• 23 professionals (statistician, ICT specialist, researcher and library and documentation specialist).
• Own 5-storied building with space 60000 sq.ft
• 5-modern computer laboratory (computer: 110 and 5 multimedia projectors etc.)
• A modern library with 25 thousands books and above one hundred journals and periodicals.
• An education documentation center