Qawmi madrasa
type of school in Bangladesh
Qawmi madrasa (Bengali: কওমী মাদ্রাসা, romanized: Kôomī mādrāsā, pronounced [ˈkou̯miˑ ˈmad̪ɾasaˑ]; Arabic: المدرسة القومية, romanized: al-Madrasah al-Qawmiyyah) is one of the two major madrasah educational categories in Bangladesh. These madrasahs are not regulated by the Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board. As private charitable organizations, Qawmi madrasahs are supported almost exclusively by donation.
In the past, the degrees they conferred lacked accreditation or official recognition, unlike those conferred by official Alia madrasahs (also spelled "Aliya" and "Aliah"), which follow the Calcutta Alia tradition. Starting in 2006, two years after the founding of the privately run Befaqul Mudarressin education board for Qawmi madrasahs, the Government of Bangladesh began to recognize some Qawmi degrees.
As of 2006, there were approximately 15,000 registered Qawmi madrasahs in Bangladesh. with 200,000 teachers educating 4 million students. Actual figures are unknownb and Qawmi madrasas do not keep enrollment records. Moreover, it has been argued that if unregistered Qawmi madrasahs were counted then it could put the total number of Bangladeshi madrasahs as high as 64,000a—suggesting that Qawmi madrasahs outnumber their official Alia counterparts (of which 25,201 existed in 2004).
History
Qawmi educational practices originate from the traditional Muslim educational system of Bangladesh.
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