Mess in education sector

Almost all praise that the education ministry in Bangladesh has done a good job during the incumbent government, but how much is it true?
Quality teachers are the heart for the development of education sector for all the countries. In our country, most of the secondary schools are non-government. Less qualified persons are recruited in non-government schools by giving bribe to the ruling party members as they are the influential members of the recruitment committee.
The incumbent government has made little progress in recruiting the best, qualified and motivated teachers in the non-government secondary schools through PSC. Special pay scale for teachers has not been introduced yet to attract the brilliant persons in the teaching profession.
Teachers' Training Colleges (TTCs) are imparting vital role for the development of teachers of the secondary schools in our country. One can  obtain bachelor degree by attending regular classes in any of the government TTCs in one year but the same degree can be obtained within the same time from the Bangladesh Open University (government university) by only attending classes 4 days a month, that is only 48 days in a year.
Students of the secondary schools have been attending creative questions for some years and creative questions on mathematics have already been introduced this year in grade VI, VII and IX but the TTCs are not following the creative questions, they are using essay type questions.
Many teachers of TTCs have only one or two classes in a week and a few are studying in the TTCs.
We have got new curriculum after 17 years and according to it we have got text books with mistakes. Some of the discussions in the maths books are difficult for the kids to understand as those parts are written by the university teachers who have no experience of teaching in secondary schools and have no pedagogical knowledge which is essential to write text books for kids. Unnecessary items (recurring decimal, simplification) are there in the new math text books.
Research shows that students learn better when lessons are presented visually but pictures are hardly found in the math text books. Obviously, four colour pictures are more attractive and also can be understood easily but are absent in the math text books. Alternative solutions help to understand sums easily but those are hardly found. Real life problems could be added in the new mathematics books so that students find studying the subject meaningful.
Physical education and arts and crafts have been introduced as compulsory subjects. Also agriculture subject has been reintroduced and each school should have an agriculture teacher. But all the schools are yet to have suitable teachers for these subjects.
Government secondary schools are suffering from huge shortage in all the divisional and districts towns with regard to head teachers, assistant head teachers, and subject teachers (math, english and science) in the most of the 317 government secondary schools across the country for a long time.
We all know the quality of the education we have in Bangladesh now. My wife is a lecturer in a non-government school and college and she found that a group of students of her class passed SSC and a few of them obtained grade A in the last few years who were not even suitable for the passing grade. A good number of 'A' plus holders could not pass in the Dhaka University admission test examination in the last year.
We all should come forward to ensure quality of education for the sake of holistic development of the country.
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