Working aboard a ship at sea can earn a person more than Tk
1.5 million a month. Yet teaching at a marine academy on land pays less than Tk
100,000. This enormous pay gap has left Chattogram Marine Academy, one of the
country’s leading maritime educational institutions, struggling to recruit
teachers.
Despite repeated recruitment notices, the academy has been
unable to find qualified instructors. Experienced teachers have also been
leaving the institution one after another. As a result, t...