A case could be made against the decision that has been reported in the following news item attached below.
It can not be true that the country do not need these graduates. So, we must be missing something.
What is the problem with these two programs? Its too early to learn secretarial science? Or is it too early to learn office management?
Those who have worked in Dhaka knows that most of the good office secretaries and front office executives are O-level and A-level graduates who do not want to study further or who are just taking a break before they decide for higher studies.
So, the same topics can not be too early for HSC level students. Rather it would seem logical that with the increase in our need to hire them as we expand our services industry, it should be seen a good way to produce more workers with soft-skills. So, why the counter-intuitive decision from the national curriculum board, who has so far proven beyond doubt that they have been a worthless some.
Or is it that the graduates of these programs are not as per expectation of the industry? If that is the case, then measures should be taken and the teachers should be trained so that they can produce better graduates, hopefully with more emphasis on at least one foreign language.
Or is it that these graduates have started taking away the jobs of O-level and A-level dropouts and at the same time, they might be bringing the salary level down, too. So, could this decision be a result of the lobbying of the english medium schools? We should clarify that we are not here to accuse somebody for nothing. However, the decision seems to be counter-intuitive from the context of market need. All we are asking that some stakeholder should look into the actual reasoning and merit of the decision and make sure that it helps broader national interest.
Business associations (e.g. FBCCI, DCCI, etc) are relevant shakeholders in this and they should be worried about this decision.