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Balance in education

22 January 2006, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Tamim Ahmed, East West University
22 January 2006, 18:00 PM
In our country, there is no balance in education. Students are studying as per demand. So, when the demand of a certain area is filled up, students of that area get into a trap. We experienced that in the 1980-90s period, people were more interested to study humanities subjects, besides medical and engineering. So, we see most of the senior educated persons of our society have M.A. degree. (very few MBAs).

In the 1990-2000 period we saw a marked shift , as students switched to computer science and IT education.

And now we are experiencing that most of the students want to study BBA and MBA. But the demand and market of BBA degree holders are rapidly reducing. If the current rate of studying BBA & neglecting study of humanities continues, then we will see a serious crisis of job for the business administration graduates.

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It is very important to remove this discrimination to maintain balance in the job market and to ensure proper educational environment. So, I think there must be a quota system in our education policy, which will decide how many students will study science, humanities and commerce in a certain year and the rest of the students should be transferred to technical and industrial fields to maintain the balance.