S Aminul Islam

The hono-urable president of the country has been sounding the bell of alarm regarding the state of our higher education, with his recent comments at a convocation event on how “we do not want certificate-based higher education” and that teachers need to “play a more prompt, sincere and meaningful role in the acquisition, rearing, practice and distribution of knowledge.

There is no doubt that Bangladesh suffers from the trap of low learning, and a key element of this is the lack of qualified teachers.