As far we have come to know from the media, the education curriculum in Bangladesh is set to undergo a major overhaul. According to the draft new curriculum, there will be no public exams before class X, and no exams of any kind for students up to Class III. And the evaluation process will also change significantly. Half the evaluation of students will reportedly be done through continuous class assessment, and the rest will be done through public exams. This will make teachers educational institutions more powerful since they have 50 per cent of marks in their hands. With this power, they will surely make students join their in-house batches or coaching classes.
According to the government guideline, teachers at schools, colleges and madrasas would not be allowed to provide coaching and private tuition to students of their own institutions. Despite the fact, a large number of teachers of English, Mathematics, ICT, Physics, Chemistry, Accounting and some other subjects still manage to teach in-house batches, which looks like next to impossible to stop. Empowering every teacher with 50 per cent public exam marks, as proposed in the new curriculum, will encourage them to start tutoring batches for their respective subjects. And students will have to study subjects like Bangla, Religion, Social Science, Health Studies etc for getting the marks. The new curriculum, from primary to higher secondary levels, seems to bring positive changes to our education system. But the marks allotted to class activity appear to be too much. So, it should be lessened to 10 to 20 per cent instead of the proposed 50 per cent.
Afroza Sheikh,
Dania, Dhaka,
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