Using human resources within the country
Saturday, 28 July 2007
SOMETIME ago, reports appeared in the country's media about a record number of teachers from the country's highest seats of learning, who have not returned after the conclusion of their foreign scholarship programmes and have stayed abroad with employment. There is no need to explain how this is affecting the performance with such academic institutions with its thinning ranks of teachers.
A learned participant in a recently-held seminar in the capital city was reported to have observed that Bangladesh government is providing massive subsidies to create technically able manpower. But ultimately such manpower are lost to the country and the resources prove to be wasteful because of brain drain. He pointed out that the country's premier technical education institution produces annually well qualified engineers but cannot keep them in the country as they go abroad never to return. An engineering student at that institution pays Taka 164 as monthly tuition fees -- thanks to subsidised education -- whereas the same student would need to spend at least taka 100,000 per semester for the same degree in a private university.
The picture is the same everywhere in the country at public sector medical colleges, institutes, specialised universities, etc. These bodies are helping the creation of human resources at large costs to the country or the taxpayers' money only to never get their services for the nation. It seems, Bangladesh has become the venue for the creation of qualified manpower at much costs to itself not for its own uses but for feeding the requirements of other countries. Conditions must, therefore, be created within the country to encourage its best brains to serve its needs. This is imperative in today's globalised economy where human skill of superior sorts has no geographical boundary.
M A Hashem
Jhikatala
Dhaka
A learned participant in a recently-held seminar in the capital city was reported to have observed that Bangladesh government is providing massive subsidies to create technically able manpower. But ultimately such manpower are lost to the country and the resources prove to be wasteful because of brain drain. He pointed out that the country's premier technical education institution produces annually well qualified engineers but cannot keep them in the country as they go abroad never to return. An engineering student at that institution pays Taka 164 as monthly tuition fees -- thanks to subsidised education -- whereas the same student would need to spend at least taka 100,000 per semester for the same degree in a private university.
The picture is the same everywhere in the country at public sector medical colleges, institutes, specialised universities, etc. These bodies are helping the creation of human resources at large costs to the country or the taxpayers' money only to never get their services for the nation. It seems, Bangladesh has become the venue for the creation of qualified manpower at much costs to itself not for its own uses but for feeding the requirements of other countries. Conditions must, therefore, be created within the country to encourage its best brains to serve its needs. This is imperative in today's globalised economy where human skill of superior sorts has no geographical boundary.
M A Hashem
Jhikatala
Dhaka