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Dropout rate goes up to 11.5pc

Staff Correspondent
The average dropout rate in each class of primary level has increased to 11.5 percent in 2008 which was 5.6 in 1998, said a draft report of Education Watch Study 2008.
It said the average rate of repetition in each class increased to 10.9 percent in 2008 from 8 percent in 1998.
The rise of dropout and repetition rates indicates declined promotion rate at different classes of primary educational institutions in the last ten years from 1998 to 2008, the draft added.
A multi-stakeholder sharing session of the draft report titled "Reinvestigating quality in primary education” was held at Bangladesh
Institute of Development Studies auditorium in the city yesterday.
Education Watch Group in cooperation with Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) organised the shaping session whpre government officials concerned, development partners, NGOs and other civil society representatives concerned shared their views on the draft.
Presenting the draft, Samir Ranjan Nath, coprincipal researcher of Education Watch Study 2008, said of the children enrolled in class I, 77.4 percent reached class II, 54.4 percent survived up to class V and 50.1 percent completed full cycle primary education.
He said the survival rate of primary level students decreased to 58.4 percent in 2008 from that of 80.6 in 1998 percent while the completion rate also decreased to 50.1 percent from 75.7 percent during this period.
The net enrolment rate remained constant at 86.4 percent from 2005, he said, adding that girls outnumbered boys in net enrolment, which was first documented in 1998 and continued till 2008.
"Children from rural areas lagged behind their urban counterparts in net enrolment throughout the decade," Samir continued.
The proportion of out-ofschool children declined from 23 to 13.6 percent in the last ten years, he said, adding that in about half of the out-ofschool cases, parents thought that their children were not old enough to enrol in schools though the children were six to eight years old.
The schools showing "other reason" refused the younger children while lack of means and losing interest in school were the prominent causes for the elder students, he added.
Samir said no change was observed in teachers' absenteeism, as it remained 12 to 13 percent in 2008.
On an average, 42.5 percent primary school teachers came to school late on the survey day, he added.
He mentioned that the student-teacher ratio at primary level improved over time as the overall ratio was found at 39:1 in 2008.
He also maintained that the madrasas are lagging behind in most of the quality indicators due to lower educational provision in these institutions.
Kazi Fazlur Rahman, chairperson of Education Watch, chaired the session while Rasheda KChoudhury, executive director of CAMPE, and Kazi Rafiqul Alam, chairperson of CAMPE, also spoke.