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Most GPA 5 scorers fail DU admission tests

Professor claims at discussion on education system

Staff Correspondent
Referring to the loopholes in the current education system, a Dhaka University professor yesterday claimed that about 80 percent of the highest GPA achievers failed to get qualifying marks in the university's admission tests, and it had been going on for the last four to five years.
Dr Mamun Ahmed, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, opined that qualitative improvement among students was not evident due to the introduction of the creative method in the education system, without pre-testing its applicability and a lack of comprehensive training among teachers on this method.
He was addressing a roundtable, "Anarchy in Education System: Bangladesh's
Future”, organised by Shikkha Odhikar Andolon at the capital's Jatiya Press Club.
"We feel sad when we see a GPA-5 achiever who obtained on an average 80 percent of marks in SSC and HSC exams but fails to score 40 out of 120 in the admission test, "the professor said. He did not give any source of this data.
Dr Ahmed claimed that politics was being introduced even in primary school, and due to the politicisation, the education system was falling apart.
Former vice chancellor of Dhaka University Prof Emaz Uddin Ahmad said, "If we want to build a progressive nation and modern human resources through education, we have to create a fantastic environment from top to bottom in the
education sector.
To bring that environment, more budgetary allocation is required, he said. "If we get 5 or 6 percent of the total budget, we would get a fantastic environment in the education sector", he said, adding that only 2.18 percent was allocated for education now.
"Skilled and competent teachers must be recruited. An unqualified teacher pollutes the education system, and without qualified teachers quality education is not possible."
Referring to the three systems of education-English, Bangla and Madrasa, Dr Emaz Uddin said this created divisions among students from their childhood.
He suggested merging of the three systems and teaching children English, Bangla and Arabic at the primary level so that they do not face problems to cope with a uniform system.
Prof Pias Karim of Brae University and Prof Abdul Latif Masum of Jahangirnagar University also spoke.