Bangladesh’s schools, colleges and unis are so poor. It is a national shame.
Problem starts with our academics - they are too poor by international standards to set curriculums. Let alone develop teachers.
We should start with an English medium school in each Upazila. Hire foreign teachers for them. Adopt one of the English boards for exams and assessments.
Then gradually turn all unis to teach exclusively in English.
Otherwise we will never have the skilled manpower to industrialise. And be trapped in middle income status.
We need a ten year plan for academia!
I think we need to be realistic here.
Both India and Pakistan had massive advantages in education over BD in 1971.
India had the British favouring them to destroy Muslim power in the subcontinent.
The Pakistanis got the educated Indian Muslims migrating there in 1947 and they favoured Pakistani education over BD during 1947-1971.
BD was one of the most illiterate countries in the entire world in 1971 and with so few resources it needed to focus on primary and then secondary education.
The literacy rate is now higher than Pakistan and on par with India. As the older population who are largely illiterate die off unlike the more literate Indians of the same age, then BD will be more literate than India by the end of this decade.
BD has issues in the higher education sector for sure and now this decade it really needs to focus on improving the quality of higher education - it should be quality over quantity and only the top 5-10% of students should get a university education.
Over time things will slowly change anyway but urgent reforms are needed and we need to get rid of politics from campuses!
PS - Forget to add that the Pakistani Army killed off as many BD academics during 1971 as they could to hamper the new nation.
