Bangladesh to cap financial support to madrassas
Financial support to madrassas restricted unless a 30 per cent success rate in public exams.
By PTI |
DHAKA: Bangladesh's interim government has decided to restrict its financial support to madrassas unless they have a minimum 30 per cent success rate in public exams.
The Education Ministry decided that no new madrassas would be given monthly pay order (MPO) unless they have the minimum 30 per cent success rate in public examinations, 'The New Age' daily reported on Saturday.
Schools, colleges and madrassas are set up by private bodies and they later start getting financial support from the government in the form of monthly pay orders only if the institutions apply for it.
There are nearly 9,000 government registered madrassas of three academic levels in the country and teachers of all such institutions are given their full salaries from the state exchequer but there were hundreds other unregistered madrassas which do not follow the government approved curriculum.
Experts have long been criticising Bangladesh's madrassa education system saying a large number of students failed to cope with their compatriots in general schools in later part of their lives.
Security officials earlier said they kept a watch on several madarassas suspecting they could be used as breeding grounds for militancy.
The Education Ministry decided that no new madrassas would be given monthly pay order (MPO) unless they have the minimum 30 per cent success rate in public examinations, 'The New Age' daily reported on Saturday.
Schools, colleges and madrassas are set up by private bodies and they later start getting financial support from the government in the form of monthly pay orders only if the institutions apply for it.
There are nearly 9,000 government registered madrassas of three academic levels in the country and teachers of all such institutions are given their full salaries from the state exchequer but there were hundreds other unregistered madrassas which do not follow the government approved curriculum.
Experts have long been criticising Bangladesh's madrassa education system saying a large number of students failed to cope with their compatriots in general schools in later part of their lives.
Security officials earlier said they kept a watch on several madarassas suspecting they could be used as breeding grounds for militancy.
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