Faculty predicament grips govt colleges

Faculty predicament during a city’s 10 supervision colleges continues to grow, with a existent student-teacher comparative measure hovering during 166:1 opposite a customary 30:1. Educationists as good as adults contend a supervision is entirely obliged for a situation. Besides, classroom overcrowding forces many students to sojourn station all by a 40-minute-long class. Many do not attend classes continually due to this inconvenience.
An review that additionally found which notwithstanding a serious clergyman crisis, a little teachers do not attend classes regularly, whilst a little have been intent in in isolation tuition, coaching or consultancy.
Most of a 1.64 lakh college students of a city have been possibly you do bachelor (honours) courses or masters, during a 10 supervision colleges which have usually 985 posts for teachers, with 65 fibbing vacant. Those colleges have a little part-time teachers too.
Education cabinet member Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury pronounced which in Mar 2011, he had asked a Bangladesh Public Service Commission to partisan teachers by a special test, to finalise a crisis.
Chowdhury additionally pronounced a plan had been taken up to set up 70 post-graduate colleges, to understanding with classroom shortage.
Prof. Dilara Hafiz, principal of a Government Titumir College during Mohakhali pronounced her college had 45,000 students, though a infrastructure during a establishment could residence usually 20,000.
She additionally pronounced a series of supervision authorized posts for teachers was usually 133, though a college has to learn a 20,000 students with 130 unchanging teachers as good as 50 part-timers.
“My college is confronting a serious necessity of teachers, classrooms as good as tyro dormitories. Nearly 350 students need to attend a singular category as good as a series is not great for possibly a clergyman or a learners,” she said, adding which some-more teachers would be recruited in a college.
Arpita Rahman, a third-year supervision tyro of Government Eden College, pronounced many of her classmates avoided classes due to space shortage.
“Only 100 out of 250 of my classmates attend a classes to equivocate crowd. We need to go to a in isolation coaching centre, as you have to essay for softened results,” she said.
Eden College has scarcely 36,000 students as good as usually 190 teachers to learn them. Dhaka College has scarcely 18,000 students, taught by usually 197 teachers.
The others have been Government Bangla College, Government Badrunnisa College, Home Economics College, Government Kabi Nazrul College, Suhrawardy College, Government Biggan College, as good as Government Sangit College.
There have been 14,447 posts in a BCS preparation cadre as good as these officers have been allocated during 293 supervision colleges as good as madrassas, as good as fourteen teachers’ precision institutions.