President Abdul Hamid on Thursday laid emphasis on making university’s academic curriculum considering demand of the job market.
“Academic curriculum will have to be consistent with labour market. It is seen that students can’t study subjects of their interest and likings. They are forced to study the subject they got through admission test. It can’t be the parameter of higher education,” he said.
The President was presiding over the 17th convocation of North South University (NSU) on its own campus at Bashundhara in the city.
A total of 1425 students of different disciplines were awarded graduation and post-graduation degrees at the ceremony. Farzana Alamgir, Tabinda Islam and Farzana Karim Arpita were awarded Chancellor Gold Medals while Haniam Maria and Najath Quamrul Islam were awarded Vice-Chancellor Gold Medals for their outstanding academic results.
President Abdul Hamid, also Chancellor of the University, said education can’t get permanent shape, if there is absence of attention as well as joy in education.
The President stressed the need for combining joy with education saying that affection for people, humanity, culture, tradition, and knowledge and technology-based techniques must be infused in education.
“We want to see students who can contribute to society something valuable through higher education and research,” he said adding that University teachers have to engage themselves in research and they (teachers) have to know what type of work is going on in their related fields in other countries. Noting that education is the first stair to build a nation, the President said education doesn’t mean only economic and social development, rather it also means developing students intellectually with non-communal spirit, and above all awakening deep patriotism. “We need such education that can create creative and enlightened people, not the certificate-oriented education or the kind of education which rely on reading of textbooks and memorizing guide books.”
Abdul Hamid hoped that education will become the key to enter the world of enlightenment which has thousands of passages to it. “I hope the education will become the open window for the locked chamber of darkness and superstition,” he said.
