Stop admission business
Majority of the population of our country live under poverty line and cannot meet the basic need like education due to their economic insolvency. Needless to say, education is a prime requisite for any kind of national development and progress. Reasonably, the incumbent government since its assumption of office is showing keen interest in educating the students with proper knowledge of morality, patriotism, communication technology, that the new national education policy serves. Due to emphasis on the sector, pass rate of the students in the SSC and the HSC examinations over the past years has significantly increased. Consequently, the number of students seeking admission for higher education in different universities and colleges is already higher than the prevailing admission capacity of universities and colleges and is increasing rapidly day by day. As the existing public universities accommodate only a small number from the massive number of admission seekers and many for lack of their economic solvency cannot afford the exorbitant costs of higher education in the private universities, it categorically paves the way for higher education of the richer section of society.
Admission into the colleges affiliated with National University is controlled by the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student front of the ruling Awami League. They make the college authorities admit the less meritorious students in exchange of a large sum of money, depriving the genuine brilliant ones and thus are carrying on their admission business and, after the completion of admission process, seat allotment business. The general students and their parents are silent victims.
The issue must be addressed immediately to save the education sector from the hands of political goons out to ruin the sector.
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