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Mohammad Ziaul Ahsan
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Country: Bangladesh
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Education with a vision in Bangladesh
November 7, 2003 - 03:15 AM
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IT is very unfortunate that governments in Bangladesh since the start of the nineties have substantially increased the education budget. But the increased allocations are hardly proving to be helpful from the perspective of creating diverse manpower for the country's economic growth and
development. This is because the spending in the education sector presently is without a vision.
It is very regrettable that for a nation of over 130 million people, Bangladesh has only one engineering university worth the name. The number of public sector medical colleges, polytechnics and vocational training institutions are also few compared to need. The number of public universities have also remained almost the same over the decades. The education budget would be well spent if greater resources flowed to these areas to create much wider opportunities for higher and technical education to create human resources. But very little has been achieved to these ends over the years.
The courses taught at secondary and higher secondary levels have not been recast to prepare and motivate pupils towards need-based education. This should have been done long ago, together with proper teachers' training in the new syllabuses and recruitment of more qualified or better teachers.
A leading daily paper recently headlined about the many education commissions which were set up by successive governments during the last thirty-two years of the country's existence. But the recommendations of none
of these commissions were approved and finally formed into policies for guiding developments in the education sector. The affairs in the sphere of education have continued to be aimless without a sense of direction. Thus, the present government is expected by all concerned quarters in the country to address the pressing needs in the education sector. The first task in order would be the earliest formation of an education policy by adopting the
best and appropriate recommendations of all the education commissions.
Source: http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_5014.shtml
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