Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said effective plans should be taken to promote technical education to achieve the targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
“We have attached top priority to expansion of technical and vocational education to ensure better access of students to job markets,” he said this on Monday while speaking at a meeting on “Technical and Vocational Educational and Training (TVET)” in the conference room of the Education Ministry here, an official release said. Chief coordinator of SDGs Md Abul Kalam Azad, Secretary of Secondary and Higher Education Md Sohorab Hossain and Secretary of Technical and Madrasa Education Division Md Alamgir, among others, addressed the meeting Director General of Directorate of Technical Education Ashok Kumar Biswas made a power-point presentation on development plan of TVET at the meeting. Nahid said the government has set a target of 30 percent enrolment in technical education by 2030 aiming to transform Bangladesh into an economically-developed country.
“In 2009, there was only one percent student enrolment in the technical education while the current enrolment rate is 14 percent,” he added.
“We are promoting knowledge-based education to develop skilled human resources to turn Bangladesh into a middle-income country. Education without skills will create a burden for family as well as the nation,” he added.
