Qawmi madrasa
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Qawmi Madrasah (Bengali: কওমী মাদ্রাসা, Arabic: المدرسة القومية, romanized: al-Madrasah al-Qawmiyyah)[note 1] is an adjective describing one of the two major madrasah educational categories in Bangladesh.[1][2] The Qawmi madrasahs are not regulated by the Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board.[3] As private charitable organizations, Qawmi madrasahs are supported almost exclusively by donation.
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In the past, the degrees they conferred lacked accreditation or official recognition, unlike those conferred by official Alia madrasahs (also spelled "Aliya" and "Aliah"),[1][4] which follow the Calcutta Alia tradition.[5] Starting in 2006, two years after the founding of the privately run Befaqul Mudarressin education board for Qawmi madrasahs, the Bangladeshi government began to recognize some Qawmi degrees.[6]
As of 2006, there were approximately 15,000 registered Qawmi madrasahs in Bangladesh,[5][7] with 200,000 teachers educating 4 million students.[7] Actual figures are unknown[2]b and Qawmi madrasas do not keep enrollment records.[6] 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 64,000[8]a—suggesting that Qawmi madrasahs outnumber their official Alia counterparts[5] (of which 25,201 existed in 2004[4]).