Training
The school system in the country has three levels:
primary school (five years), secondary school (five plus two
years), and college and college (four to seven years). The
primary school is in principle compulsory and is free of
charge with the exception of teaching materials. About 70%
of children aged 5-10 attend primary school, 15% of 11-15
year olds are enrolled in secondary school, and of 16-17
year olds receive 4% education in the two years preceding
college and college. There are about ten universities in
Bangladesh, the two largest in Dhaka, and a number of
colleges, technical schools and teacher training seminars.
Vocational training is under development. Check topschoolsintheusa for test centers of ACT, SAT, and GRE as well high schools in the country of Bangladesh.
In principle, teaching in Bengali continues at all levels
of education except for college and college, where English
predominates. They mainly invest in so-called finer higher
schools at the expense of the primary school. The reading
and writing skills of the adult population are below 40%,
for women below 30%.
The higher schools have been British role models since
the colonial era and therefore have little connection to
local conditions. As a whole, the educational standard in
Bangladesh is poor and is an obstacle to the country's
development.
In August 2013, the Supreme Court withdrew the
registration of the Islamic Party Jamaat-e-Islami, and
banned it from running for future elections. The party
advocated displacement of ethnic and religious minorities in
the country and reunification with Pakistan. Since the
1980s, it had entered into various alliances with the
Nationalist Party GDP and had also held ministerial posts,
but its popularity had declined in previous years and in
2008 it gained only 2 seats in parliament. In 2010, the
government opened a criminal record of the crimes committed
during the War of Independence in 1971 and in March 2013,
three Jamaat members were convicted of crimes in 1971. In
response, Jamaat conducted extensive protests and
demonstrations across the country that caused extensive
material damage and cost 60 lives. Most killed by security
forces. Jamaat is not illegally decided, but simply cannot
stand for the elections. It has since participated in the
BNP's protest actions against the government.
At the January 2014 parliamentary elections, Hasina's
Awami League passed 4 seats and gained 234 seats in the
300-seat parliament. This happened on the basis of 79.1% of
the vote. The second largest party was Jatya Party (JP)
which, on the basis of 11.3% of the votes, got 34 seats.
However, the background was bloody. Through 2013, the
opposition coalition of 18 parties, led by the Nationalist
Party BNP's Khaleda Zia, had carried out 85 nationwide
strikes and blockades that nearly brought the country to its
knees. In December 2013, Zia announced that the opposition
would boycott the January parliamentary elections, which she
did not expect would be fair. The EU representative met with
Zia and invited her to give up her boycott, take part in the
elections and enter into a dialogue with the government, but
in vain. Then the JP Party also joined the boycott. The
government responded again by putting in the military. JP's
leader Ershad was placed under house arrest as early as
December 4. Zia was placed under house arrest from December
26. At the request of the Supreme Electoral Commission, the
military was deployed to maintain order in the period
leading up to and after the election. It failed. On December
29, BNP called for a March for Democracy in protest of the
government's ban on demonstrations. GDP and the opposition
clashed with counter-demonstrations by Awami and several
were killed. In Gaibandha, opposition activists derailed a
train and three were killed. On December 30, the opposition
decided to launch an uninterrupted series of blockades of
all roads, train lines and waterways in the country from
January 1 in protest of the election. On January 3 and 4,
opposition oppositionists burned 100 polling stations across
the country. On the very day of the election on January 5,
the election campaign was disrupted at 400 polling stations
and another 100 burned down. 21 were killed. As a result of
the extensive violence, turnout reached only 22%.
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