teacher-shortage

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...

At Kargil Government Pilot High School in Sandwip upazila of Chattogram, there are 15 approved teacher posts. Of these, 12 are vacant. Although there are two approved posts each for important subjects such as Bangla, English and mathematics, there are currently no teachers working in any of these subjects. In contrast, Chattogram Collegiate School in Chattogram city has 10 English teachers against eight approved posts. This is the picture of two separate government schools in the same dist...