Finding quality teachers is a challenge: Prof Serajul
It is now a big challenge to find quality teachers in Bangladesh, Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury said yesterday.
He said meritorious students have to be brought into the teaching profession.
The eminent thinker said this while presenting a keynote speech at a discussion titled, “Quality education, hindrance and success”, organised marking Dhaka University’s 98th founding anniversary.
“A good teacher should not only be wise, they have to be truly interested in the job. Teachers’ allowances should be increased to ensure meritorious students choose the profession and concentrate on teaching in classrooms instead of coaching centres,” he said.
Speaking about university-level education, Prof Serajul said, “The case is not that university education used to be better and now it is deteriorating. Students are losing interest in education because they do not see any future in it, they don’t get any confirmation of livelihood. Unemployment problem is increasing.”
Presiding over the programme, DU vice-chancellor Prof Md. Akhtaruzzaman said, to overcome the obstacles in ensuring quality higher education, the university has undertaken some initiatives.
“A recommendation cell will be formed with former vice-chancellor AK Azad as head. Committee members will conduct research, evaluate it, and give recommendation for improving the quality of education,” he said.
Earlier at a celebration programme in front of the administrative building, the VC declared an honorary D.Litt degree will be conferred to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Marking the founding anniversary, different buildings of the university and dormitories were decorated with colourful lights, graffiti, festoons, and balloons.
Present and former students, teachers, and staff of the university brought out a procession on the streets of DU campus and ended it at Oporajeyo Bangla sculpture.
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