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Published : 13 Oct 2025, 12:45 AM
Candidates who passed the teacher registration examination for private educational institutions but have not yet been appointed are staging an overnight protest in Dhaka’s Shahbagh after holding a “candlelight procession” there, demanding the issuance of a “special public notification”.
Announcing a long march towards the Non-Government Teachers' Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA) office on Monday morning, they warned that the agency’s office would be shut down if their demands are not met.
The candidates, who were finally selected in the 18th Teacher Registration Exam but did not receive a recruitment recommendation in the sixth public notification, observed a day-long “rally and demonstration” in Shahbagh on Sunday.
At 8:30pm, the candidates held a procession with lit candles. The march circled from the front of the National Museum to the TSC intersection and returned to the museum, where they continued their sit-in overnight.
Khorshed Alam, a leader of the recruitment candidates, told bdnews24.com at 10pm, "We will remain outside the National Museum all night.”
He warned that if the special notification was not issued, they would shut down the NTRCA office, warning of a “NTRCA Shutdown” programme.
Khorshed said that of the 1,865,000 applicants for teacher and lecturer positions in private secondary schools and colleges, 60,521 candidates successfully passed the preliminary, written, and oral stages of the 18th Teacher Registration Exam.
"When the sixth public notification was issued in June, we also applied. According to the result of the public notification, only 41,627 candidates received a recommendation for appointment against over 100,000 vacancies.
“Despite this huge number of vacant posts, 16,213 candidates who passed the 18th exams did not receive an appointment recommendation."
The protesters demand a special public notification by October to appoint them to the remaining vacant posts from the last notice, combined with any posts that will become vacant by December.
Khorshed said, "If the NTRCA issues a special public notification, those of us who are successful candidates will get the opportunity to teach."
Through the sixth public notification, issued on Jun 16, the NTRCA sought applications for 100,822 teaching posts vacant in MPO-listed private educational institutions.
The application process ran from Jun 22 to Jul 10.
The results of the notification were published on Aug 19, with 41,627 candidates recommended for appointment who had the opportunity to join their educational institutions up until Sept 18.
At a workshop organised by the NTRCA on Sept 30, the agency's Chairman Md Aminul Islam said: "It appears on the surface that a large number of posts are vacant and that candidates have not received recommendations, but the issue is not that simple. Because candidates pass the teacher registration test for a specific post in a particular subject.
"It can be seen that for one subject, there are many candidates but fewer posts, in which case some candidates remain without a recommendation. Conversely, for another subject, there are more vacant posts but fewer candidates, in which case posts remain empty."
