UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday stressed the need for flourishing science and technology-based technical and vocational education in a wider way alongside general education in the country to meet the growing job market demand.
“Science and technology-based technical education should have to be spread widely in the country alongside the general education so that they (students) could groom up themselves and gain financial solvency,” she said.
The Prime Minister was addressing the inauguration of the Technical and Vocational Education Week 2014 (June 18-24) at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the capital organised by the Ministry of Education.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid also spoke on the occasion.
This is for the second time that the Technical and Vocational Education Week is being held in the country with the theme ‘Technical and Vocational Education for facing the challenge of the 21st century.’
The Prime Minister, in her speech, appreciated the theme as the time-befitting one.
Hasina said, her government has been implementing various measures so that the teenagers and youths feel more encouraged to have technical and vocational education to create more employment opportunities and thus contribute to the country’s development to a great extent. “I believe our children have much more talents and they could flourish those if get little scope.”
Mentioning that education is the only tool which could free the country from poverty, Hasina said the country’s education system is being
reformed so that the future generation could receive standard education.
In this connection, she listed the introduction of semester system, GPA system in the country’s education sector alongside upgrading the educational curriculum to international standards after assuming office in 1996.
Referring to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s resolve to turn Bangladesh as the Switzerland of the East, Hasina, the eldest daughter of Bangabandhu, said the country could also be built in such way if due emphasis is given on education.
In this connection, the Prime Minister she said the government is making primary education up to class eight where the students would be able to decide the path for moving ahead in materialising their future goal of professions like doctors, engineers.
Lambasting the BNP-Jamaat alliance for taking backwards the country in the education sector, especially the literacy rate, the Prime Minister said, “They (BNP-Jamaat) had skills in moving backwards not moving forwards.”
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday stressed the need for flourishing science and technology-based technical and vocational education in a wider way alongside general education in the country to meet the growing job market demand.
“Science and technology-based technical education should have to be spread widely in the country alongside the general education so that they (students) could groom up themselves and gain financial solvency,” she said.
The Prime Minister was addressing the inauguration of the Technical and Vocational Education Week 2014 (June 18-24) at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in the capital organised by the Ministry of Education.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid also spoke on the occasion.
This is for the second time that the Technical and Vocational Education Week is being held in the country with the theme ‘Technical and Vocational Education for facing the challenge of the 21st century.’
The Prime Minister, in her speech, appreciated the theme as the time-befitting one.
Hasina said, her government has been implementing various measures so that the teenagers and youths feel more encouraged to have technical and vocational education to create more employment opportunities and thus contribute to the country’s development to a great extent. “I believe our children have much more talents and they could flourish those if get little scope.”
Mentioning that education is the only tool which could free the country from poverty, Hasina said the country’s education system is being
reformed so that the future generation could receive standard education.
In this connection, she listed the introduction of semester system, GPA system in the country’s education sector alongside upgrading the educational curriculum to international standards after assuming office in 1996.
Referring to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s resolve to turn Bangladesh as the Switzerland of the East, Hasina, the eldest daughter of Bangabandhu, said the country could also be built in such way if due emphasis is given on education.
In this connection, the Prime Minister she said the government is making primary education up to class eight where the students would be able to decide the path for moving ahead in materialising their future goal of professions like doctors, engineers.
Lambasting the BNP-Jamaat alliance for taking backwards the country in the education sector, especially the literacy rate, the Prime Minister said, “They (BNP-Jamaat) had skills in moving backwards not moving forwards.”
