Bangladesh, beside BOU all traditional universities must provide ODL (Open Distance Learning) as dual-mode or multi-mode institutions.100 Furquenia, Hafizia & Quaumi Madrasah Besides the public system of Madrasah education a good number of private institutions' offer traditional Islamic teaching to Muslim boys and girls. These are known as Furquania Madrasah, Hafizi& Madrasah and Quami or Nizamia Madrasah. Furquania Madrasas offer basic education (maximum 4 years) on Islam including Arabic language, Quran recitation, elementary Bengali language and simple arithmetic. Hafizia madrasah is exclusively meant for 'Hifz' or the memorising of the entire Quran. Children of the earliest possible age group join these institutions and complete their programme within the required period. Mostly these institutions are residential and attached to a Masjid. Qawmi is another major madrassa in Bangladesh. The Qawmi madrasas are not regulated by the Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board. In Qawmi madrasa, students mainly read religious and Arabic subjects. At present, some Qawmi madrasas have general subjects till class eight. The government formed an education commission for Qawmi madrasas to monitor the education system there and the commission report was approved in April, 2012. 101 As private charitable organizations, Qawmi madrasahs are supported almost exclusively by donation. Qawmi Madrasas arrange their academic programme according to grades of one year each beginning from Grade I to Grade XIV named in Arabic. It follows the Deoband syllabus where knowledge of modern science is not imparted and emphasis is on Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages.102 The final grades are called Daurah. Traditionally students who obtain a 'Kamil’ degree by passing the 'Daurah' stage, use the title 'Moulana' with their names. 103 According to the education policy 2010, the primary education will have an integration of the streams existing in the field: all the streams will study some specific subjects which will have a common syllabus. This can be supported from the viewpoint of integrating the fragmented portions of the society: these 100 ibid 101 Wadud (n 92) 102 Supriya Singh, ‘Recognizing Qaumi Madrasas in Bangladesh: Boon or a Bane?’ Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, < http://www.ipcs.org/article/bangladesh/recognizing-qaumi-madrasas-in-bangladesh-boon-or-a-bane-2114.html > accessed 1 June 2014 BANBEIS (n 93)10 103 Page | 34

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