The neglected education sector
Saturday, 18 April 2009
SO many posts in the education administration have been lying vacant for long including all those of the Deputy Directors (DDs) in the zonal offices, most of District Education Officers and Assistant District Education Officers (ADEOs), almost all the Head Teachers and Assistant Head Teachers of the government schools and most of the Principals of government Teachers' Training Colleges. The government could not find a Director General (DG) in DSHE for about a year. But all the key posts in the administration have been changed several times in a very short span of time.
A large number of non-government secondary schools have no Head Teachers and Assistant Head Teachers. The government could not yet make a law for the management of the non-government colleges, secondary schools and madrasahs.
Note books and guide books are sold in the open markets though they are banned. We regularly see many advertisements on guidebooks and on notebooks in the national dailies and on the satellite channels.
So many coaching centres are run by school and college teachers. School and college teachers do not teach in the classes. But they do in the coaching centres.
Many teachers do not know what is creative question and how to make school-based assessment as they are not trained.
Teachers' are ill paid. Even a day labourer earns more than teachers. Only a few teachers do their work properly in the schools and colleges. Many schools do not have classrooms.
How computer education will be made compulsory from Class VI to Class X from the next year when many schools in the rural areas have no electricity and trained teachers. Load shedding affects normal activities where there is electricity.
Why will the use of their laptops be made compulsory? Is it for the developed countries to sell their laptops?
Mawduda Hasnin
Raninagar
P.O. Kajla
Rajshahi-6204
mawduada@gmail.com
A large number of non-government secondary schools have no Head Teachers and Assistant Head Teachers. The government could not yet make a law for the management of the non-government colleges, secondary schools and madrasahs.
Note books and guide books are sold in the open markets though they are banned. We regularly see many advertisements on guidebooks and on notebooks in the national dailies and on the satellite channels.
So many coaching centres are run by school and college teachers. School and college teachers do not teach in the classes. But they do in the coaching centres.
Many teachers do not know what is creative question and how to make school-based assessment as they are not trained.
Teachers' are ill paid. Even a day labourer earns more than teachers. Only a few teachers do their work properly in the schools and colleges. Many schools do not have classrooms.
How computer education will be made compulsory from Class VI to Class X from the next year when many schools in the rural areas have no electricity and trained teachers. Load shedding affects normal activities where there is electricity.
Why will the use of their laptops be made compulsory? Is it for the developed countries to sell their laptops?
Mawduda Hasnin
Raninagar
P.O. Kajla
Rajshahi-6204
mawduada@gmail.com