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1,000 schools in 'bad shape'
About 1,000 high schools in Bangladesh are 'performing poorly' despite various government efforts, an official report shows.
Published : 24 Oct 2014, 06:27 AM
Updated : 24 Oct 2014, 06:46 AM
Apart from them, 31 high schools have been graded 'non-performing' in overall ranking that considered education environment, school infrastructure, teachers' competence and students' performance.
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) prepared the report last year based on information given by the schools' teachers.
The 'self evaluation' survey was carried out in 18,425 out of 18,598 schools in Bangladesh.
Each school was marked in a scale of 100, based on seven education-related indices.
The report was launched in Dhaka on Thursday.
DSHE officials said the survey report evaluated the implementation of education ministry plans and the schools' success in using a set of new rules and techniques to improve education quality.
A decision to do annual surveys to evaluate the performance of the country's high schools had been taken in 1998.
The DSHE sought overall evaluation information from the schools based on the new education policy and new approaches to teaching adopted by the ministry to improve education quality.
The schools were ranked in five categories, based on marks obtained in seven categories -- 'A' top performing, 'B' well performing, 'C' moderate performing, 'D' poor performing, and 'E' non-performing.
Only 1,020 schools were ranked 'A', 9,098 fell in the 'B' category, while another 7,319 under the 'C' category.
Of the rest, 957 schools were identified as poor performers and 31 as non-performing.
Comilla Education Board has topped the ranking list like the previous year. Of the 1,264 schools under this board, 1,245 have been ranked in the top three categories.
Khulna has retained its second place with 2,632 schools out of 2,683 in the board ranked A, B and C.
Chittagong has moved up to the third place. The region has 1,526 schools out of 1,573 in the first three categories.
Sylhet, which had held the number three spot last year, has dropped to five this year. Dhaka, too, slid down the ladder to the sixth from the fifth position.
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