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Showcause on 1400 institutions as none passed exams

MUSTAK HOSSAIN with AKTAR FARUK SHAHIN
The government has asked about 1,400 institutions without any successful candidate for public examinations last year to explain the educational downslide.
The education ministry served showcause notices on 189 high schools, 128 colleges and 1,077 madrassahs, with a 15-day time limit for explanation. The others are vocational and business management institutions.
The ministerial action came after a survey by the Bangladesh Bureau of Education Information and Statistics, which says none of the candidates from the institutions passed the public examinations, including SSC (Secondary School Certificate) and HSC (Higher Secondary Certificate).
The survey report also says that about 8,000 educational institutions have below 20 per cent success rate for the 2002 examinations. The ministry plans to serve showcause notices on them as well.
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia asked the education ministry to slash budgetary allocations in case the institutions failed to live up to expectations in a year.
Heads of the institutions were instructed to improve the standard of education in a year. If they fail, their institutions will be left out of Monthly Pay Order (MPO).
The prime minister also directed the ministry to use the performance of examinees as a yardstick for budgetary allocation to the institutions.
The institutions that performed better will be provided with more budgets and those with poor trackrecord will be paid less, Khaleda told Education Minister Dr Osman Farruk recently, when he handed the survey report over to her.
Khaleda also advised him to form a survey team to make a set of recommendations, based on the results of public examinations. The team will comprise intellectuals, journalists, former teachers and members of the civil society.
She expressed concern at the poor performance of the educational institutions and blamed the educational downslide on teachers and the bad management.
The prime minister asked the ministry to maintain transparency and accountability in disbursement of government allocation to nongovernment teachers.
Our Barisal Correspondent adds: As many as 98 educational institutions in Barisal division were served with showcause notices and asked to perform well within a year.
Of them, 23 are high schools, 73 are madrassahs, one SSC vocational institution and one business management institute.