Education in disarray
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While presiding over the convocation at Jahangirnagar University, the Honourable President very rightly expressed his concern at the declining educational standards of our universities. It is high time our intellectuals took up serious and realistic measures to correct this sorry state of higher education. Of course, student politics, patronised and actively encouraged by all our political parties, is a major reason behind this state of affairs. Political parties must rectify their relationship, in the overall national interest of better education standards for higher education in Bangladesh. Not that this should mean that teachers lower the standard of examinations, so that most students can easily pass it and secure high marks! This is the easy way out, but it actually harms the cause of education much more. More tutorials, closer monitoring of subjects being taught and regular surprise tests, with proportionate marks carried over to the final result, may help matters. Also class attendance needs to be strictly monitored. It is unfortunate that the high standards that we were used to in the mid 1950s have all gone. Many departments of studies in the university have sadly deteriorated, and attending classes regularly is no longer a compulsion. The government should take up the matter seriously, to see that the standard of education is uplifted, for which all necessary steps in the right direction should be taken, in national interest.
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