Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said it is not possible to stop private coaching centres overnight without ensuring quality standard of education at the institutions.
He, however, said the coaching centres have to be stopped through social movement raising public awareness.
The minister made the remark at the launching event of "Bangla Version of Confronting the Shadow Education System: What Government Policies for What Private Tutoring," published by International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Unesco.
Nahid said the government is working for ensuring quality of education with appointing meritorious and committed teachers and increasing their salaries and dignity.
He said the government is actively considering forming a separate pay scale for them.
The Unesco, Dhaka Office, organised the event in the city's National Academy for Educational Management (Naem) auditorium.
"Students of our country go to coaching centres before getting admitted to schools when the students abroad go [for taking] classroom [lessons] and then go for coaching," Nahid said, adding that it is indeed shameful.
He said students of the country have limited scope to learn ethical values from the educational institutions though it is necessary to learn ethics in their childhood.
He said how the teachers will teach morality to their students when many of them are being appointed "unethically" by offering money, not by merit.
"We have to bring a change in our mindset," said Nahid.
Director of Comparative Education Research Centre Mark Bray and Director of Brac Education Programme Safiqul Islam presented separate keynote papers.
Unesco Head and Representative Darek Elias chaired the programme while Bangladesh National Commission for Unesco (BNCU) Secretary Abdul Khaleque, Brac Educational Research Unit Coordinator Samir Ranjan Nath, and Naem DG Shamsur Rahman also spoke.
Source : The Daily Star
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