42pc GPA 5 scorer from capital

About 42 per cent of the students who have scored Grade Point Average 5 in the Higher Secondary Certificate examinations this year are from Dhaka as many educational institutions offering intermediate course in Dhaka are well equipped with educational facilities and teachers.
Students in the capital usually can afford coaching, private tuition and do get better guidance from parents at home and teachers in classrooms, academics said.
Colleges in cities other than the capital, less equipped with educational facilities and teachers, lag behind in terms of better grades in public exams after Class XII. The colleges in rural areas who lack proper educational facilities and required teachers are in worst position, they said.
HSC results published on Sunday showed that 42 per cent (13,980) of the 33,242 achievers of GPA 5 in eight general education boards were from the capital.
Students of outlying districts lag behind their compatriots in capital as number of better quality educational institute is hardly seen outside Dhaka, said academics and officials.
They also said that students in Dhaka usually could afford coaching, private tuition and did get better guidance from parents at home and teachers in classrooms which usually helped them to lead over students of outlying districts.
‘Not only education, everything is Dhaka centric. There are more number of better quality schools and colleges in the capital so their result is better than other areas,’ former Dhaka University English professor Syed Manzoorul said.
Inter-education board coordination subcommittee chairman Mahbubur Rahman, also the Dhaka education board chairman, said that number of better educational institutions was higher compare with that in others places and students of these institutions in Dhaka were doing better.
He also said that rural guardians were now sending their bright children to cities, especially Dhaka, for better results and rural 
schools and colleges lacked better students which wee affecting their results.
In Dhaka board, 73 per cent (13,980) of the 18,930 GPA 5 scorers are from the capital.
The results showed that 18,930 or 57 per cent of 33,242 GPA 5 scorers in eight educational boards were from Dhaka education board, consisting of three cities Dhaka, Naryanganj and Gazipur.

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