Poor condition of Bogra women's college
The Mujibur Rahman Women's College of Bogra, afflicted with shortage of teachers and education facilities, is another proof of the dismal state of the local colleges in Bangladesh. The college with 12,000 students has only 46 serving teachers and 16 class rooms while it requires over 100 teachers and at least 32 class rooms. In addition to this overcrowded situation, scarcity of buses, lack of exam hall and auditorium, and shortage of accommodation in the hostels are seriously hampering academic activities of the government college.
In Bangladesh, though the local colleges accommodate most of the students of the country they do not get adequate attention from the education authority. While the colleges in the capital have surplus teaching staff, most of the local colleges suffer from shortage of teachers as the teachers do not want to stay in the rural areas. According to data, in 329 local college-level institutions, 3,474 out of 15,000 posts of college teachers are vacant.
To address this dismal situation, the government should allocate more funds for local colleges. More teachers should be recruited and education resources should be evenly distributed. In the case of the Bogra women's college, the education authority should take immediate measures to relieve the woes of the suffering students.
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