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Govt still sitting on education commission report

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The government is yet to start implementation of the National Education Commission-2003 report and is still 'prioritising the recommendations' of the report submitted 11 months ago.
Implementation of the recommendations will require several months more as the government is now prioritising them, a senior official of the education ministry said.
The commission, formed in January 2003 with former Dhaka University vice-chancellor Maniruzzaman Miah as its chairman, submitted its report in March last year.
Reports of previous education commissions or expert committees were not implemented fully.
"We have organised consulta-
tions at all the six divisional headquarters with experts and stakeholders to prioritise the recommendations as the commission report contains hundreds of suggestions," said Asadur Rahman, chief of the implementation cell formed on the advice of the commission.
Some of the recommendations are however in the process of implementation, he told The Daily Star.
The education ministry has already taken steps to form a teacher recruitment body for appointment of dedicated and meritorious teachers. The commission suggested formation of such a body.
The process of formation of an accreditation council for private universities as well as decentralisation of education administration is on in the light of the commission report, Asadur mentioned.
The cell will also assess financial requirements for the implementation of the commission report, he added.
The commission suggested a 'unitrack' secondary education system instead of science, humanities and commerce sections at secondary and higher secondary levels as at present.
It also recommended a new
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examination system that evaluates quality of learning of students apart from declaring whether they passed or failed. But it kept the public examinations out of the purview of the proposed system.
The commission report recommended a teacher-student ratio of 1:30 at primary level and 1:40 at secondary level within the next eight years.
According to a report of the Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), the teacher-student ratio in Bangladesh is the 'poorest' among 22 South and East Asian nations. There is just one teacher for every 57 school-goers in Bangladesh.
The commission emphasised an effective mechanism to ensure enrolment of children in school at the age of five. It also suggested formulating a language policy, and stressed proper teaching of English language.
Prof Maniruzzaman told The Daily Star recently the commission had made its recommendations keeping in view that they could be implemented immediately.
He also said centres of excellence could be established at different universities to encourage research of international standard.
The commission advised the government to refrain from establishing public universities with a 'single discipline' such as agriculture, engineering and medicine. The concept is against universal education and basic norms of university level education, it noted.
It also recommended establishing at least 100 primary schools a year for the next 10 years on the basis of a survey to identify the localities deprived of or in need of more schooling facilities.