Despite some achievements in terms of the coverage of primary and secondary education across the country as well as the pass rates of public exams in the outgoing year, controversies like question paper leak in different terminal exams and unusual failure rate in Dhaka University (DU) admission tests have raised some serious concerns for the sector, according to educationists, reports UNB.
They, however, said this encouraging that the rate of primary school going children has made a great stride in 2014 as 97.3 per cent of the children, aged 6-10, are now going to school while the dropout rate decreased by 21.3 per cent.
In 2014, 78.33 per cent of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)
examinees passed successfully in the exams while some 70,602 students achieved the highest grade point average (GPA)-5.
But the higher pass rate and GPA scoring cannot be gulped with much pleasure as the incidents of question leak in some public exams like Primary School Certificate (PSC), Junior School Certificate (JSC), Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) have frequently been exposed.
Alongside, there are some failures like leaking of question papers in public examinations, poor education quality, corruption in private universities and violent attitude of Bangladesh Chhatra Legue (BCL), the student associate body of the ruling party.
Particularly, during the primary terminal examinations, students got the leaked questions through mobile phones, social networking sites and emails before the examination days.
In fact, it was the parents of the primary examinees who collected
the leaked out questions that went viral in the internet, whereas the government failed to stop the repeated question leaks.