Quality primary education!
December 27, 2008
SPEAKERS at a view exchange meeting in the city the other day demanded of the government to establish at least one primary school in each village across the country. They called for recruitment of more primary teachers to narrow the present teacher-student gap. I also agree with the proposal in general but regarding quality education I disagree. You can ask me why? If you have a child, are you ready giving him/her in a government primary school?
Govt schools start admission form
December 21, 2008
A total of 24 government schools in the city start sale of admission forms for Classes 1 to 9 on Sunday, with a view to holding entry exams from the first week of January. “The respective school authorities will sell and receive the forms from 3pm, to 9am,” Farid Uddin, assistant director of Secondary and Education Department, told bdnews24.com. “The sales of forms will continue till Dec 27 and Tk 100 will be taken for every form,” he said.
Govt schools start admission form sales Sunday
December 17, 2008
A total of 24 government schools in the city start sale of admission forms for Classes 1 to 9 on Sunday, with a view to holding entry exams from the first week of January. “The respective school authorities will sell and receive the forms from 3pm, to 9am,” Farid Uddin, assistant director of Secondary and Education Department, told bdnews24.com. “The sales of forms will continue till Dec 27 and Tk 100 will be taken for every form,” he said. Students will take tests on the traditional 100 mark system.
Forty percent primary schools in Khulna have no playgrounds
December 1, 2008
A study on ‘Primary education service in Khulna City Corporation area’ launched by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and Khulna unit of Committee of Concerned Citizens (CCC) in the KCC area said that 40 percent primary schools in the city have no playgrounds. The study that was started in May 2008 among the 500 schoolchildren of 10 primary schools and their parents was published at Khanjahan Ali Road office of Khulna CCC on Saturday morning.
Poverty deprives children of pry education in Lalmonirhat
September 16, 2008
Most children in char and border areas of different upazilas in Lalmonirhat are being deprived of primary education mainly due to abject poverty.
The families in char and border villages of the district live in extreme poverty and they prefer to send their children to work for earning livelihood, local sources said.
Besides, ignorance of guardians and lack of sufficient are also one of the reasons for poor enrolment of children in the primary schools, local people said.
Official sources at the district primary education office said the number of children enrolled in schools in the district is 2.50 lakh and of the total, 50,000 have been dropped-out.
They also said children of poor families in char and border villages cannot receive primary education as there is hardly any school there.
Of the total 461 villages in the district, only 220 have government primary schools numbering 302, the sources said adding there are around 65,000 children in the remaining 241 char and border villages.
Some 30 percent of these poor children somehow manage to read in different non-government schools run by local NGOs.
According to district primary education office, there are no school in 50 per cent of the villages in the district.
These villages are vulnerable to river erosion so the government did not set up any school there, the sources said.
About 25,000 children in char areas earn livelihood by catching fish or working at crop fields, 10,000 in border villages carry smuggled goods and some 15,000 work at restaurants and factories in the district town and upazila headquerters, says a report of Gano Prochar Kalyan Sangstha, a local non-governmental organisation.
Some union parishad chairmen and members said child marriage, divorce and unplanned family are also the obstacles to primary education in the poverty-stricken areas of the district.
The chairman of Khuniya Gachh union parishad Abdul Malek said abject poverty forced most of the poor parents to send their children to work for earning livelihood.
Abdullah, a member of Mohiskhocha union parishad under Aditmari upazila said some NGOs have set up primary schools in Teesta char areas and these schools are providing children with food for education.
“The poor guardians here are gradually getting interested to send their children to school thanks to the ‘food for education’ programme,” he added.
‘If the government takes such education programme in char and border villages, the guardians will feel encouraged to send their children to schools,’ he said.
The district primary education officer, Riyaz Uddin, told New Age that currently, the government has no such education programme at char and border villages in the district.
He, however, felt that the government should introduce ‘food for education’ programme in char and border villages.
Some NGOs have introduced ‘food for education’ programme in eight unions of the char and border areas to impart primary education to poor children.
Abdul Jabbar, acting executive director of local NGO Prottasha, said his organisation was conducting ‘food for education’ programme at Kulagha, Rajpur and Tajpur char villages.
The poor parents in these villages have changed their mind and they are now sending their children to schools.
Source: New Age