Bangladesh has the highest household expenditure on education in the South Asian region, according to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) report released on Friday.
The 'Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2021-22' says families in Bangladesh are covering 71 per cent of education expenditure, with the poorest struggling to meet school expenses.
Pakistan has 57 per cent household expenditure on education and Nepal 50 per cent- holding the second and third positions respectively.
The Unesco report said 40 per cent of pre-primary pupils, 20 per cent of primary pupils and 30 per cent of secondary and tertiary students are now educated in non-state schools worldwide.
However, the new GEM report shows that many countries lack adequate regulations on private education or the capacity to enforce them, undermining quality and potentially widening the educational divide between rich and poor.
The report analyses non-state actors across all education systems, ranging from schools run by faith-based organisations, NGOs, philanthropies and for-profit commercial entities, to all those involved in the provision of services to the education sector.
Many countries let these schools, most of them not registered, operate without any oversight.
Unesco HQ said on Saturday said that tutoring prevalence has also increased over time in many countries.
It told the FE over electronic mail on the day that in Bangladesh, the share of households that paid for private tutoring increased between 2000 and 2010 from 28 per cent to 54 per cent in rural areas and from 48 per cent to 67 per cent in urban areas.
