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SSC Results

Urban students outshine rural ones

Wasim Bin Habib
The results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations this year show the gap between the standard of education in urban and rural areas with the urban institutions dominating the list of top ones under each education board.
Authorities say although the institutions in rural areas are gradually doing better in terms of pass rate and achieving the highest grade, urban institutions,
particularly in the metropolitan cities, continue to be the best over the last one decade.
Pass rate hit an all time record 86.37 percent in the SSC and equivalent examinations under the 10 education boards, published on Monday. Of the 14, 12, 379 students who took the examinations, 82,212 secured the highest grade GPA-5.
The lists of top-20 institutions under each board, prepared by the education ministry on the basis of results of the examinations, shows the urban schools, particularly those in the metropolitan cities, are the best.
And, most of the around 1,92,485 students who failed in the examinations are from the rural institutions, sources in the boards said.
Of the top 160 institutions under the eight general education boards, 78 are state-run and these are considered the best in the districts with most of their students coming from well-off families. Most of the remaining ones are either cadet colleges or run by specific forces such as the army, or located in district towns.
Under Dhaka board, 16 of the top 20 institutions are in the capital and only four are outside it.
The four are Mirzapur Cadet College, Mymensingh Girls' Cadet College, Cantonment Public School and College, Tangail, and Mymensingh Zila School at the district town.
Under Jessore board, 14 of the top 20 schools are government-run. Five are either cadet colleges or specialised schools.
The picture is similar as
regards institutions under other boards.
Under Dhaka board, around 3.24 lakh students from 18 districts, and those under a foreign centre, took the examinations. Around 2.78 lakh of them passed.
The pass rate in the capital is 94 percent while it is 81.29 in Munshiganj, 79.6 in Faridpur, 79.02 in Shariatpur, 79.15 in Gopalganj, and 81.28 in Mymensingh districts.
Of the 25,629 students who got GPA-5 under Dhaka board, 15,368 are from Dhaka metropolitan area.
Educationists observe that urban schools do better than the rural ones since they have necessary investments and better facilities. Such discrimination must be minimised, they say.
Rasheda K Choudhury, former adviser to a caretaker government, said, "We need to invest more in those schools that are struggling for doing better. We need to train their teachers and provide them with other educational facilities.”
Rasheda stressed allocating at least four percent of the GDP or 20 percent of the annual budget for education to improve the situation.