Education policy
I welcome any new education policy arrived at after due consideration by the experts to improve it in our country as education is the key element for any nation. I also note the objections of the BNP and JP in this matter. Such objections really point out the root malaise of all our education policies which needs urgent attention. The necessity is to make partisan politics illegal and irrelevant in all our educational institutions (for both students and teachers), and in all official recruitment agencies and promotion boards. Political parties can have 'young' or 'retired' groups ( as they have in UK and other countries), but their activities must be outside any educational institution, and they must not use the label 'student'. Genuine student politics should be restricted to representation and activities of students for their own welfare.
Our educationists should visit countries which have strong bipartisan politics such as the UK, USA and India etc., and study how partisan politics has no place in educational establishments of these countries and recommend to our whole nation that this is absolutely essential for success of any of our educational policy.
Without such outright ousting of party politics from our educational institutions, I am afraid any other measure is like recommending that the deck furniture be rearranged as a solution to prevent the Titanic from going down.
Why should anyone take up the arduous task of study and cultivation of merit, when much greater rewards can be had by using muscle power and patronisation?
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