Syllabus -- English medium schools

What concerns me is the heavy accent on Western history, culture, literature, and geography, and paucity of local writers on local and foreign topics. There should be more chapters on Asia and writers from Asia, especially South East Asia.

We are producing Western-oriented children, who later become very keen for further studies in the West. The spirit of nationalism and culture is eroded, or the base is not strong enough. Later many of these youth do not wish to return to their homeland, as the anchoring is missing or weak.

Our education policy planners have to go deeper into reviewing the guidelines for syllabi followed in the local EMSs, and revise it accordingly. The ministry may encourage a series of seminars on different aspects of English-medium education in Bangladesh, to draw up a modular national education Code for the EMS.