The social development consultancy secured the US$13.5 million (NZ$20.6 million) contract from the Bangladesh Government, which is spending US$108 million to improve secondary schools.
Chief executive Hone McGregor said winning the contract was the culmination of two years' intensive work. "We won ahead of six other short-listed international consortiums."
Bangladesh has 9.4 million pupils attending 18,677 secondary schools staffed by 240,000 teachers.
PINZ will deliver certificate-level training to 110,000 untrained teachers and provide in-service professional development to 180,000 other trained and untrained teaching staff. It will also select a group of more than 70 Bangladeshi secondary teacher education experts to attend overseas master's-level study programmes.
A team of PINZ education specialists will live in Dhaka for six years and work with various Bangladeshi education agencies.
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