Desk Report
Publish: 11 Aug 2021, 10:35 pm
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) logo (Photo: Collected)
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has
suggested that students be vaccinated and educational institutions are reopened
as soon as possible in accordance with health measures in order to restore the
losses in education and jobs that the youth have suffered as a result of
Covid-19.
It also made eight other recommendations, including
evaluating pupils at all levels and promoting them to the next level using
short-, medium-, and long-term plans.
In a media statement issued marking International Youth
Day, which is being observed today, TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman
said 16 months had passed since Covid-19 led to school closure, but no
comprehensive and effective action plan had yet been taken to reopen them.
He said the online education program had largely been
unsuccessful due to a lack of technical skills, uninterrupted power supply, and
internet connection.
It rather created new forms of discrimination in
education, but the government had not taken any step yet to address those, he
said.
He also said some recent studies had shown that 19% of
primary and 25% of secondary students had dropped out due to Covid-19 while
child marriage had risen at an alarming rate (26%) due to fears of an uncertain
future.
The government had not yet allocated any fund for the
additional investment needed to address these new challenges, he added.
TIB also recommended taking special measures to bring
back dropouts to the classroom, including incentives to ensure uninterrupted
education for female, disabled, and insolvent students as well as those from
indigenous and underprivileged communities.
Iftekharuzzaman said youngsters had mostly lost their
jobs due to Covid-19 and most of them were in the informal sector.
The government had not announced any large-scale
assistance for them yet, he said.
He said job uncertainty would grow further if proper
educational measures were not taken to help people gain new skills needed to
cope with the changing nature of jobs caused by the pandemic.
In addition to incentives for young entrepreneurs, TIB
recommended special stimulus to reopen small and medium enterprises young
people lost jobs from.
It also recommended technical and special training to
prepare unemployed youths or new graduates for alternative occupations, such as
freelancing.
The anti-graft watchdog's other recommendations include resuming government and private job recruitment tests and appointments that remain suspended due to Covid-19 and ensuring equal competition in all jobs based on merit and qualification.
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