The teacher-students ratio is considered as one of the important indicators of education quality because in crowded classrooms, it is difficult for students to take lessons while teachers get less time to attention on each student. The number of students in the schools has been increasing every year and the authorities are struggling to provide them with the required number of teachers. Despite improving the dropout situation it is still challenging for secondary level; which is overridden by girls’ enrolment over boys. This is a phenomenal shift but not encouraging because drop-out still remains big.
Grade 10 students accounted for one third of those who dropped out. Almost an equal number of girls dropped out of school in Grade 8. Marriage and social security are among the main reasons behind girls dropping out of school. Girls’ enrolment in the secondary-level education was 73.10 percent last year while that of boys was 63.85 percent. The report showed that more than 11,000 educational institutions are vulnerable to disasters like flood, cyclone, landslide, river erosion and salinity. It means we must do more to protect them to protect our education system.
The number of government secondary schools stands only at 339 mow accounting for 3 percent of total Secondary level schools. This is unbelievable. Over 97 percent of total secondary schools are privately-run now and many of them were expensive adding to burden of parents. The government’s apathy to establish government schools are hitting hard the poor as the private schools are exploiting the education on commercial basis.
It is clear that the government has not enough motivation how to increase the quality of education at Secondary Level, except big planning with poor results in the ground. The government policies and actions must change to attain quality education for all.
