The government has taken initiative to repeal the Non-Government Teachers Registration and Certification Authority Act 2005 for forming a new authority to appoint eligible teachers to non-government educational institutions.
In this regard, the government has drafted the Non-Government Teachers Selection and Recruitment Recommendation Authority Act 2024.
The draft has recently been uploaded on the website of the Non-Government Teachers Registration and Certification Authority, under the education ministry, for getting opinion of the public.
The preface of the draft said that for overall development of the quality of education formation of an authority was necessary to select and appoint eligible teachers to the non-government educational institutions on merit.
As per the draft, which has 27 sections, the non-government educational institutions are the non-government junior secondary, secondary, secondary school and college, college, vocational training institute/technical school and college, polytechnic institute, dakhil, alim, fazil and kamil madrassahs and attached ibtedayi, dakhil, alim, fazil and kamil madrassahs and the non-government educational institutions running vocational/technical and business management courses.
These non-government educational institutions have to be recognised by any of the nine general education boards, Bangladesh Technical Education Board, Bangladesh Madrassah Education Board, National University or any recognised university, and Islamic Arabic University or any recognised educational institution.
The existing Non-Government Teachers Registration and Certification Authority will be converted to the Non-Government Teachers Selection and Recruitment Recommendation Authority automatically with its all workforces and activities.
An executive board will operate the authority.
The board will be comprised of 16 members including from different education boards, ministries of education, public administration, and finance, public university teachers, the National Curriculum and Textbook Board and the proposed authority.
In every three months, the board will hold meeting at least once.
The board activities will include collecting demands for vacant positions for the education boards, holding examinations, selecting appropriate candidates against vacant positions based on exam results and merit, recommending recruitment, fixing and collecting fees for holding exams and making recommendations, giving advice to the government for the development of the teaching profession and enhancing quality, registering the educational institutions under monthly payment order, operating researches on appointment and implementing programmes and other duties in order to implement the proposed law, the draft said.聽
The proposed authority will have a fund while the sources will be government, private and individual grants, and fees collected by the authority and others.
Every year on September 30 or before that, the authority will prepare a report on its year-wise activities and submit it to the government.
When the proposed law would be in effect, the existing 2005 law would be repealed, the draft added.