THE results of the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations, published on May 12, show that no single examinee has come out successful from 51 educational institutions, mostly madrassahs. Forty-two of the institutions are under the Madrassah Education Board, three under the Dhaka education board, four under the Dinajpur education board and two under the Rajshahi education board. The number of such institutions was 48 in 2023. This does appear neither an improvement on the situation nor a deterioration as the number of institutions from where no examinees have passed the secondary public examinations was 50 in 2022, 18 in 2021, 104 in 2020, 107 in 20198 and 109 in 2018. The statistics do not present any pattern or a trend, declining or improving. All this suggests a general absence of efforts, or even sincerity, on part of the agencies meant to look after national education. A very few students are reported to have taken the examinations from educational institutions with no examinees coming out successful. It has been reported that there were 11