All secondary to tertiary level educational institutions under the education ministry have been instructed to resume academic activities on Sunday.
The education ministry issued the order on Thursday.
The order paved the way for all educational institutions to resume their usual academic activities after a month.
The ministry, in its order, said that the chief adviser, Muhammad Yunus, had given his approval to start academic activities after opening the educational institutions.
Suleman Khan, secretary of the Secondary and Higher Education Division under the education ministry, said that they had recently sent a summary of the situation to the chief adviser of the interim government, seeking his directive to reopen the educational institutions.
Earlier, the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate issued a press release on the night of August 5, saying that all government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous offices, private establishments, and educational institutions would be reopened on August 6.
ISPR made the announcement hours after long-time ruler Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled to India amid a student-led mass uprising.
Though some schools reopened following the order, their presence was low.
Many educational institutions are yet to reopen, while many are taking classes online.
Public universities, including Dhaka University, Chittagong University, Jahangirnagar University, and Rajshahi University, are yet to resume classes and examinations, though administrative offices reopened last week.
On July 16, the government announced the indefinite closure of all secondary and higher secondary-level educational institutions amid student protests seeking reform in the quota system for government services.
The University Grants Commission of Bangladesh on the same day requested all public and private universities to keep their institutions closed and vacate students鈥� residential halls until further notice.
On the same day, the National University authorities also closed down all colleges under it.
The primary and mass education ministry announced the closure of government primary schools in phases between July 17 and July 20 and reopened the educational institutions under it on Wednesday by issuing an order.
