Fahima Khatun, a professor of sociology at Dhaka College, has been appointed the chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, according to an education ministry order issued Wednesday.

Dhaka education board chairman M Shamsul Haque has been transferred to the Government Bangla College as principal. Haque was made chairman of the Dhaka education board in February this year. Fahima Khatun is also the president of the BCS (general education) Cadre Association.

She was associate professor at Brahmanbaria Government College before being posted to Dhaka College in July 2007 as a full professor. She joined the BCS General Education Cadre as a lecturer in 1984. The board is authorised to give preliminary approval for establishing new schools and colleges and conduct secondary school certificate and higher secondary certificate examinations.