Editorial
Regulating coaching business
Think up a formula to address the issue
The meeting of the heads of different schools and colleges of Dhaka on Thursday with the education minister Nurul Islam Nhid with the demand to stop coaching centres has drawn our attention.
The move by the teachers is appreciable, though the minister has pointed to the infeasibility of such a proposition. However, her can still think of taking some steps to regulate the phenomenon.
We think the mushrooming of coaching centres is symptomatic of the failure of our education system as a whole. The educational institutions are failing to provide the students with necessary instructions at the classrooms. Which is why, the guardians and their wards are making a beeline for private coaching. Many teachers taking advantage of this situation have been running private coaching centres shirking their duties at the institution they are employed with.
We would still like to distinguish private tutoring and coaching business per se. Our recommendations on this score are:
The government should bring the coaching centres under regulation. Though private coaching may be given allowance for, it has to be ensured that private tutors may not teach their own students from the schools they are employed with. The school authorities must duly monitor if the teachers are providing adequate attention to their students at the classrooms.
The private coaching centres situated on a formal premise have to be registered with the appropriate authority. That authority will monitor whether the coaching centres are maintaining the standards set by it.
We think the government will form a committee on this score comprising eminent persons from the intelligentsia to deal with the complex issue at hand and devise a formula to address it adequately.
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