The New Nation - Internet Edition

Chittagong Correspondent

Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) in a bid to curb the seat problem at the public colleges will soon introduce class XI and XII at some of the secondary schools under its supervision.

The secondary schools currently possess the required infrastructure, logistics and teachers are becoming under the status uplift scheme, according to the informed officials.

Two secondary girls schools - Fateyabad Bahumukhi City Corporation Girls High School and Halishahar Ahmed Mia City Corporation Girls High School - have been earmarked for the scheme in the first phase.

Talking to this correspondent over phone, the Acting Mayor Alhaj M Monjur Alam said that the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Chittagong had nodded a specific proposal in this regard.

The Acting Mayor said, "We've a plan to upgrade some of the CCC-run schools in the city as success-rate at the Secondary School Certificate examinations is on the rise."

He hoped that the plan would be implemented in phases so that the brilliant SSC graduates can avert frustration and find room for further education.

He disclosed that two corporation-run colleges - Patenga City Corporation Girls School & College and Postapara Asma Khatun City Corporation Girls School & College - would soon be upgraded to degree colleges.

Chairman of Chittagong Education Board Professor Mohammad Yusuf informed that an uplift proposal on Fateyabad Bahumukhi CC Girls High School had already been forwarded to the ministry concerned.

"There will be no bar for uplift of status to college from school once the ministry nods the proposal," the board chairman said.

The CCC had been under pressure from different corners for incorporating higher secondary course at some of its schools mainly at the face of increasing seat-crisis in public colleges.

Musa Ali Nuri, a retired public servant, hoped that the CCC's school uplift scheme would help address the enrollment problem to a large extent. "The culture of running after a handful of public colleges will go away if the CCC-run colleges deliver quality education," he commented.

Currently, the CCC runs eight colleges including two degree-colleges. Kapasgola CC Girls' School & College, Saraipara CC Girls' School & College, Postarpar Asma Khatun CC Girls' School & College, Kulgaon CC Girls' School & College, Quaish Burirchar CC Degree College, Patenga CC Girls' School & College, Jarina Mafjal College, Ayub Bibi CC School & College and Premier University College.