Bangladesh, July 10 -- A master's degree holder applying for an office assistant's position would once have been considered an extraordinary exception.

However, it is gradually becoming common in Bangladesh. Recently, during the recruitment for the post of office assistant at the DC office Pabna, almost all the selected candidates had honours or master's degree, despite the job requiring only an SSC qualification.Demographics

Similar incidents have been reported in the recruitment of public sector bodies like Bangladesh Railway in which highly educated youths are competing to get jobs which require much lower educational qualifications. The issue is not that these jobs lack dignity.

The problem is that Bangladesh is producing more uni...