''NU education falls apart''
Mahfuzul Haque, On e-mail
A report under the above title published in The Daily Star in its April 10, 2004, issue drew my attention. And my experience of being acquainted with the people (the students and the teachers in some cases) of the NU gives me the same picture. It is now known to everyone that NU education has become something not to be taken into account. The shortage of teachers, their negligence, the acute shortage of classrooms, insufficient infrastructure are hindering the normal activities of the university.Here I want to reflect my own thinking. The examination system should be changed. A set of general questions is prepared to test the students who do not find it easy to respond as they have to cover a huge syllabus which is not always completed in their institutions. They cannot answer because teachers of their institutions did not emphasise the questions that they are asked to answer in the exams. Again, answer-scripts are sent to different places to prevent malpractice. The evaluation does differ as the teachers may hold different opinions which the examiner of the script may not hold. Another thing is that the examiner may not be sympathetic to the writer of a particular script, while he or she may be more sympathetic to his or her own students. The teachers of the different colleges under NU should be in contact with the teachers of other public universities like DU, RU, CU, BUET etc. and familiar with the courses in those institutions. The salary of teachers must be enhanced so that they can concentrate fully on classroom teaching. Crimes in the offices of the colleges can be curbed by the NU authorities through legal steps.
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