Banning Coaching Centres
Critics generally express concern about the negative impacts of coaching centers only at times of university admission tests of the public universities.
But for the rest of the year, they remain almost silent. It is not like that the coaching centers are only opened for the university admission test’s participants. There are a lot of coaching centers which teach students from Class I to the SSC level.
These so-called coaching centers do not only kill the students’ time but also their creativity. They hardly get time to study on their own or any time space for engaging in recreational activities. In big cities, the parents, who can afford, get their wards admitted into more than one coaching centers. And the prospecting candidates for admission tests go through a lot of trouble to get themselves admitted into such centres. These centres are sometimes involved in unethical business of questions leakage. That is in most unfair manner they make the competetion ground uneven instead of a level playing field. As a result most deserving students cannot get chance to study in public universities.
The prime purpose of such centres is making money. They have hardly any concern for the education and skill development of students. Previously, the government took many policies to prevent the activities of such coaching centers. But later those were not implemented.
I humbly request our Education Minister to take steps to implement the policies taken previously to stop such commercialization of education. Otherwise, the situation will turn bad to worse with each passing day.
Syeda Raihana Akhter
Student, Business Administration,
Shahjalal University of Science & Technology,
Sylhet
