Teacher arrested for question leak, who to believe: Edu’ Secy

Abu Bakar Siddique, Secretary Secondary and Higher Education Division of the Ministry of Education, said, “We are in a difficult time. Three teachers are behind the bar, one is absconding. Whom shall we believe? Unfortunately, we could not, but arrest these teachers.”

He said this regarding the arrest of three teachers including the center secretary in connection with leaking uestion papers of the ongoing SSC examination under the Dinajpur education board.

The chief guest spoke at a day-long workshop with participants to establish good governance in educational institutions in the implementation of the national reform strategy implementation strategy at the Residential Model College auditorium in the capital on Wednesday (September 21).

Secondary and Higher Education Department Additional Secretary Md Belayet Hossain Talukder, Director General of Secondary and Higher Education Directorate Prof Nehal Ahmed and related senior officers and stakeholders were present at the programme.

The secretary said, “We are in a difficult time. Today we are talking about purity. Question papers have been leaked. Exams have been postponed. Unfortunately, we could not, but arrest our teacher. We are doing a workshop here today with this shame. Three teachers are in jail, one is absconding. Whom will we trust? We gave the responsibility of bringing and taking the question papers, we heard that he is an Islamic man in full dress. Where to believe? What will students learn? We cannot discipline teachers. We need an awakening, a renaissance.”