Establish more technical schools
BRAC has a good number of primary schools completing 5 years primary schooling curriculum in four years. BRAC has also been replicating its model to other countries in the world.
Now, BRAC, the largest NGO in the world, has established a few secondary schools across the country particularly in the rural areas. We learnt from the print media a few years ago that the government incurred loss of Tk. 600 crore yearly due to excessive educational institutions across the country which numbers near 5000.
Moreover, we find in many intermediate colleges there are more teachers than students and many teachers enjoy more off days than working days and even they take one or two classes in a week. Grade IX can be opened in those intermediate colleges as early as possible.
The government is going to establish 100 technical schools in some upazilas. Technical schools are more suitable for us than general schools. We also know that some other NGOs are also working in the education sector aiming uplift there.
We had an experience to prepare lessons for using in the computer classeas. We had an acute shortage of animators for preparing the computer lessons. But this type of work, I think can be done by our students of grade V if they receive 6 months training on it.
So, we ask BRAC as well as other NGOs to establish more Technical schools rather than general schools across the country and turn general schools into technical schools.
Mawduda Hasnin
Rajshahi
[email protected]
