Govt college principals' conference starts today

With the dearth of teachers and classrooms crippling education at the government colleges, a conference of these college principals kicks off today to find ways to improve the higher secondary education and solving the problems.

Principles of 306 colleges will discuss their problems along with suggestions towards the solution in presence of top officials of the education ministry at the conference to be held at 10:00am at International Mother Language Institute in the capital's Segun bagicha.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid is scheduled to inaugurate the daylong conference, organised by the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE).

The conference, first of its kind, will focus on the improvement of standard of education, streamlining the audit and inspection of colleges and innovative ideas on college education, Prof Fahima Khatun, director general of DSHE, said.

Prior to organising the event, the directorate asked principals to submit reports on the number of students, teachers, infrastructural facilities, problems and potentials of their colleges.

According to the latest statistics of DSHE, around 3,700 posts of teachers are vacant in the colleges where the number of posts of teachers is more than 15,000. Around 13 lakh students are pursuing education in these colleges.