‘Form groups of edn volunteers to reduce drop-out rate’
Engaging education volunteers in teaching students after school hours in each localities, especially in the poverty-stricken rural areas, would help reduce the drop-out rate among schoolchildren to zero, speakers at a seminar said yesterday.
As the teacher to student ratio in public schools is 1:61, the teachers find it difficult to pay attention to each student and help them complete their task in the class, they said.
On the other hand, the parents who are illiterate could not help their children do their homework, resulting in the students being reprimanded by teachers. These students gradually lose interest in going to school and finally drop out of schools, they added.
To discourage students from dropping out of schools, groups of education volunteers should be formed in each localities, the speakers said highlighting the success of such a programme of Centre for Development Innovation and Practices.
The University of Manchester Alumni Association, Bangladesh (UMAAB) in association with the Centre for Development Innovation and Practices organised the seminar titled 'School dropout and its remedies in rural areas' at the National Press Club in the city.
Prof Dr M Shamsher Ali, convenor of UMAAB, presided over the seminar addressed by Fakhrul Hasan Murad, Mohammad Yahia, Syed Lutfur Rahman and Rafiqul Islam Sarkar.
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