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Subject-based training needed to qualify as primary teachers

TIB suggests in study report

Staff Correspondent
Prospective teachers should be provided with subject-based training to qualify as primary school teachers to improve the quality of education in the country, a Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) report has said.
"As many as 73 per cent of government primary teachers and 70 per cent of other registered primary school teachers are yet to receive such subject-based training," the report said.
Besides, a single teacher has to teach several different subjects due to shortage of teachers," the TIB report stated in pointing out the
main obstacles to quality education.
TIB organised a roundtable meeting on 'The Problems of Primary Education: The Way of Prevention' at Cirdap auditorium in the capital yesterday to launch the report on 'Primary Education Administration and Management: Problems andWay ofPrevention'.
Speakers at the meeting pointed out the obstacles to the quality of service rendered by primary' teachers. A primary teacher has to carry out 73 different tasks alongside teaching, according to TIB. These include work for birth registrations, census, polling duties during
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elections, etc
TIB Chairman Prof Muzaffer Ahmad, who conducted the roundtable meet, said that these additional tasks should be stopped ! immediately.
He also laid emphasis on the need for time scale to be introduced for primary school teachers.
The TIB report also said that the teachers pay scale has to be modem -ised so that the profession attracts meritorious students. Also the government end the salary discrimination among the government, registered and community primary school teachers should go, it added.
Primary and Mass Education Adviser Rasheda K Choudhury said that coordination among political, administrative and social forces is needed to improve quality education in primary schools.
She admitted that there was some corruption in the sector but added, "the percentage of corruption is little as the primary and mass education ministry is very much decentralised."
The adviser also said that primary education would soon be handed over to the local government so that communities get more involved in improving the quality of school education.
Primary and Mass Education Ministry Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the ministry has accepted the positive recommendations by 11B because these would help as effective measures to improve thequalityofeducation
Among others. Directorate of Primary Education Director General Nazrul Islam Khan, former adviser to the caretaker government Hafizuddin Khan and former vice chancellor of Dhaka University Prof Muniruzzaman Miah took part in die roundtable meeting.