The Bangladesh government has announced renewed efforts to curb the growing commercialization of private coaching and tutoring, which has increasingly overshadowed formal classroom education. The newly issued 2025 MPO and staffing policy for private schools and colleges explicitly prohibits teachers from engaging in coaching businesses. Teachers found involved may face salary suspension, demotion, or dismissal. The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) has also been instructed to identify and report teachers participating in such activities.

Despite the existence of the 2012 anti-coaching policy, enforcement has been weak, with monitoring committees largely inactive. Parents complain that many teachers pressure students to join private batches, creating financial strain and educational inequality. Education officials admit that previous rules failed due to lack of accountability and are now seeking to modernize the policy.

Advocacy groups argue that only a dedicated law—not just policy—can effectively end the coaching trade. The government’s next steps will determine whether classroom learning can regain priority over the entrenched private tutoring culture.