Education Boards must admit failures for zero pass rate in 50 colleges

It is beyond belief that not even a single student from 50 higher secondary level educational institutions across the country could pass the HSC and equivalent exams this year. Last year, there were five such educational institutions. What’s more astonishing is that not just the colleges from remote villages, there are colleges even from the capital among the educational institutes with zero pass rate. So think of how acute the level of degradation is just within one year.
Media reports, quoting the Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee’s information on the results, say 44 of the educational institutions with zero pass rate fall under the nine general education boards. Of them, 13 colleges are under Dinajpur education board, nine under Rajshahi board, eight under Dhaka board, six under Jashore board, five under Cumilla board and three under Mymensingh board. On the other hand, no students from four madrasas under the madrasa education board and two educational institutes under the technical education board could pass the exam.
Naturally, the question arises how the educational institutes, from which not even a single student could pass, gained curricular and academic recognition from the secondary and higher secondary education board. This board provides educational institutes with curricular and academic recognition after evaluating their educational programme. Are they performing that task responsibly or under the influence of certain individuals and groups?
Then again, even after an educational institute has received the recognition once, the education board is also responsible for monitoring if there is appropriate infrastructure and skilled educators to run the curriculum or not. However, the incident of so many colleges having a zero pass rate proves that they haven’t done that job properly. The work has been on paper but not in reality. Many establish educational institutes with a commercial mindset in the country. But that business cannot obviously run excluding proper education.
Indeed, there’s no scope of opening an educational institute without having own land and infrastructure. But the college in Malibagh, from where no student could pass this year, is running from a rented house. How did this college manage to get approval? There’s no record of how many educational institutes throughout the country are receiving approval and running under the noses of the authorities like this. But no one has the right to play games with students’ lives.
We want the academic recognition of educational institutes that don’t even have the minimum facilities to run curricular programmes or necessary educators and educational equipment, must be rescinded. Those who are destroying students’ future, must be brought to justice for severe punishment.