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Increase of madrassahs graduates in army is unfounded
Siddiqur Rahman Khan
Private donations account for 57 per cent of the money spent on running qoumi madrassah which confirms the popular beliefs that these types of institutions survive under community patronage and donations from Muslim households and individuals, said a World Bank report.
Thirty per cent of their total income does not fall under any category. at the same time 11 per cent of total income comes from student fees, pointing out that not all of these traditional madrassahs provide free education, said the World Bank report, Secondary School Madrassahs in Bangladesh: Incidence, Quality, and Implications for Reform, drafted on March 15, 2009.
If the parents only care about whether their child excels in religious studies, then as we point out in the report Qoumis are doing a good job. Unlike traditional madrassahs in Pakistan, traditional madrassahs in Bangladesh seem to have undergone some structural changes even in the absence of any state intervention. Some have stared to admit girls in recent years in addition to undertaking some modernisation of the curriculum, it reads.
Qoumi madrassahs in Bangladesh are also becoming increasingly feminised. Seventy-four per cent of our samples Qoumis are all male-institutions while only a mere 9.5 per cent are coeducational. In all of our coeducational Qoumi madrassahs, however, boys and girls have separate classroom, said the report which was sent to the Economic Relations Division secretary, Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, by Xian Zhu, country director of the World Bank, on March 31.
This is the part of banks comprehensive effort to examine the quality of secondary education in Bangladesh, which has been highlighted by the government as a major challenge to be addressed moving forward, said the letter. We seek your comments on this report and would also like to discuss how to disseminate it effectively with a wide-range of stakeholders.
About the residential facilities, the report said, As a matter of fact, only 87 per cent of our qoumi madrassahs offer at least some residential facilities (compared to only 19 per cent of aliyah madrassahs).
About the number of qoumi madrassahs and their students, the report observed, To summarise, the number and share of qoumi madrassahs in both the primary and secondary sector is much lower than what is portrayed in the popular press.
Once again, even in terms of primary enrolment share, incidence of Qoumi madrassah is not large in rural Bangladesh: they account only 1.9 per cent of the total primary enrolment. These numbers are very small when compared to enrolment in a similar non-religious, non-state school that also caters to children from poor families NGO schools account for 8.2 per cent of the primary enrolment in our study, the report said.
The first-ever survey conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics in December 2008 said there were 5,230 qoumi madrassahs with about 14 lakh students.
Brushing aside a finding of an international survey which claimed recruitment of madrassah graduates in the Bangladesh army, the World Bank report said the finding was unfounded as the source of the data of the study was unknown.
According to the report, also in a recent edition of Harvard International Review, Wazed and Ciovacco (2008) state that as part of a deliberate plan by Islamists to increase their representation in the armed forces in Bangladesh, madrassahas are specifically prepping their pupils for the military entrance exam. They then go on to give precise figures they state that while only 5 per cent of military recruit came from madrassah in 2001, by 2006 madrassahs supplied nearly 35 per cent of recruits. Unfortunately, nowhere in the study do the authors give any reference whatsoever for the source of their data.
In line with the study of Wazed and Ciovacco, a former ambassador Waliur Rahman at a workshop of the Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs on April 16, 2009 said the BNP-Jamaat government had recruited almost 35 per cent military from qoumi madrassah background during its tenure from 2001 to 2006, but it was not more than 5 per cent before the 2001 elections.
Waliur also said The majority madrassah-background army members are involved with the militancy.
When asked about the source of his data, Waliur said, This was among the findings of a study conducted by BILIA and the Bangladesh Research and Publication Ltd.
Waliur faced severe criticism as he failed to produce an authentic document in favour of his claim. There is no state recognition of certificates offered by qoumi madrassah.
http://www.newagebd.com/2009/may/09/front.html#2
Siddiqur Rahman Khan
Private donations account for 57 per cent of the money spent on running qoumi madrassah which confirms the popular beliefs that these types of institutions survive under community patronage and donations from Muslim households and individuals, said a World Bank report.
Thirty per cent of their total income does not fall under any category. at the same time 11 per cent of total income comes from student fees, pointing out that not all of these traditional madrassahs provide free education, said the World Bank report, Secondary School Madrassahs in Bangladesh: Incidence, Quality, and Implications for Reform, drafted on March 15, 2009.
If the parents only care about whether their child excels in religious studies, then as we point out in the report Qoumis are doing a good job. Unlike traditional madrassahs in Pakistan, traditional madrassahs in Bangladesh seem to have undergone some structural changes even in the absence of any state intervention. Some have stared to admit girls in recent years in addition to undertaking some modernisation of the curriculum, it reads.
Qoumi madrassahs in Bangladesh are also becoming increasingly feminised. Seventy-four per cent of our samples Qoumis are all male-institutions while only a mere 9.5 per cent are coeducational. In all of our coeducational Qoumi madrassahs, however, boys and girls have separate classroom, said the report which was sent to the Economic Relations Division secretary, Muhammad Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, by Xian Zhu, country director of the World Bank, on March 31.
This is the part of banks comprehensive effort to examine the quality of secondary education in Bangladesh, which has been highlighted by the government as a major challenge to be addressed moving forward, said the letter. We seek your comments on this report and would also like to discuss how to disseminate it effectively with a wide-range of stakeholders.
About the residential facilities, the report said, As a matter of fact, only 87 per cent of our qoumi madrassahs offer at least some residential facilities (compared to only 19 per cent of aliyah madrassahs).
About the number of qoumi madrassahs and their students, the report observed, To summarise, the number and share of qoumi madrassahs in both the primary and secondary sector is much lower than what is portrayed in the popular press.
Once again, even in terms of primary enrolment share, incidence of Qoumi madrassah is not large in rural Bangladesh: they account only 1.9 per cent of the total primary enrolment. These numbers are very small when compared to enrolment in a similar non-religious, non-state school that also caters to children from poor families NGO schools account for 8.2 per cent of the primary enrolment in our study, the report said.
The first-ever survey conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics in December 2008 said there were 5,230 qoumi madrassahs with about 14 lakh students.
Brushing aside a finding of an international survey which claimed recruitment of madrassah graduates in the Bangladesh army, the World Bank report said the finding was unfounded as the source of the data of the study was unknown.
According to the report, also in a recent edition of Harvard International Review, Wazed and Ciovacco (2008) state that as part of a deliberate plan by Islamists to increase their representation in the armed forces in Bangladesh, madrassahas are specifically prepping their pupils for the military entrance exam. They then go on to give precise figures they state that while only 5 per cent of military recruit came from madrassah in 2001, by 2006 madrassahs supplied nearly 35 per cent of recruits. Unfortunately, nowhere in the study do the authors give any reference whatsoever for the source of their data.
In line with the study of Wazed and Ciovacco, a former ambassador Waliur Rahman at a workshop of the Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs on April 16, 2009 said the BNP-Jamaat government had recruited almost 35 per cent military from qoumi madrassah background during its tenure from 2001 to 2006, but it was not more than 5 per cent before the 2001 elections.
Waliur also said The majority madrassah-background army members are involved with the militancy.
When asked about the source of his data, Waliur said, This was among the findings of a study conducted by BILIA and the Bangladesh Research and Publication Ltd.
Waliur faced severe criticism as he failed to produce an authentic document in favour of his claim. There is no state recognition of certificates offered by qoumi madrassah.
http://www.newagebd.com/2009/may/09/front.html#2
