Dhaka: Britain will provide 230 million pounds (over $350 million) to Bangladesh for improving quality of primary education and health sector over a period of next five years.

The fund will aid the government's Third Primary Education Development Programme to improve the quality of education of 16.5 million children, recruit and train 35,000 new teachers, and construct 30,000 new classrooms.

Visiting British Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell announced this Sunday, news agency bdnews24.com reported citing a media statement from the British High Commission in Dhaka. IANS