Recruiting good teachers
Neither the existing viva tests nor the ministry recommended written tests for teacher recruitment is enough to ensure quality education in public universities. Most teaching posts are given to top CGPA holders – a faulty and archaic process. An excellent CGPA holder may be a good student, not a good teacher.
Teachers must be active academically, socially and pedagogically, implementing innovative and effective teaching strategies. I recommend the following additional recruitment criteria for teachers: minimum test scores, demo classes taken by candidates, and taking votes from students. We urge the UGC and authorities concerned to bring positive and effective changes in the teacher recruitment process at public universities.
Only good results not enough to be a good teacher.
Juel Rana
University of Dhaka
Save Syria
The peace loving people of Bangladesh are worried about Syria, now a battle field of the USA and Russia. The most hateful thing is that Russia has been indiscriminately bombing Syria, as Saudi Arabia doing in Yemen. But the saddest event is that the UNO is unable to tame the aggressors and to save both Syria and Yemen.
We again say that the Lebanon like Constitutions only can save the two countries initiative whereof must be taken by the UNO.
Ameer Hamzah
DHaka
