Nearly 80 Percent of the Students Failed DU Entrance Tests Professor of Dhaka University (DU) has claimed that nearly 80 percent of the students failed to get the qualifying marks in the entrance exam of the University. Dr. Mamun Ahmed, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, opined that qualitative improvement among students wasnt evident due to the introduction of the creative method in the education system, without pre-testing its applicability and a lack of comprehensive training among teachers on this method. He was addressing a round-table, Anarchy in Education System: Bangladeshs Future, organized by Shikkha Odhikar Andolon at the capitals Jatiya Press Club. We feel sad when we see a GPA-5 achiever who obtained on an average 80 percent of marks in SSC and HSC exams but fails to score 40 out of 120 in the admission test, the professor said. He did not give any source of this data. Dr. Ahmed claimed that politics was being introduced even in primary school, and due to the politicization, the education system was falling apart. Former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Professor Emaz Uddin Ahmad said, If we want to build a progressive nation and modern human resources through education, we have to create a fantastic environment from top to bottom in the education sector. To bring that environment, more budgetary allocation is required, he said. If we get 5 or 6 percent of the total budget, we would get a fantastic environment in the education sector, he said adding that only 2.18 percent is currently allocated for education. Skilled and competent teachers must be recruited. An unqualified teacher pollutes the education system, and without qualified teachers quality education is not possible, referring to the three systems of education-English, Bangla and Madrasa, Dr. Emaz Uddin said this. He suggested merging of the three systems and teaching children English, Bangla and Arabic at the primary level so that they do not face problems to cope with a uniform system.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 13:13:31 +0000
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