The government has already taken massive initiatives to promote Islamic education incorporating science and technology aiming to build competent workforce, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said yesterday.
“As part of modernizations process of madrasa education, we have made huge infrastructural developments
with scientific and technological facilities in the past six and a half-year,” he made the comment at a
discussion at Islamic Arabic University here.
Editor of the daily Inqilab AMM Bahauddin, Additional secretaries of the Education Ministry AS Mahmud and Helal Uddin, Chairman of Bangladesh Madrasa Education Board AKM Saif Ullah, officials and teachers, among others, addressed the discussion with Vice Chancellor of Islamic Arabic University Muhammad Ahsan Ullah in the chair. Nahid said some 1,300 new buildings for madrasas were constructed in the past six and a half-year to expand madrasa education across the country. “Alongside infrastructural development, we have prepared modern curriculum incorporating science and technological knowledge to make madrasa education time-befitting,” he added.
“Like general education, students studying at madrasas have access to better job market…. They will make contributions to society acquiring both Islamic and scientific knowledge, the minister added.
The number of students in higher education at both madrasa and general levels has increased significantly as the government has taken various effective steps in the past couple of years, Nahid observed.
Nearly six lakh students are now studying at Fazil and Kamil madrasas, he said adding this figure is very impressive and encouraging for expansion of higher madrasa education.
“As part of massive digitization campaign, multimedia classrooms have so far been set up at 5 ,500 madrasas…. Multimedia classrooms will be established in the remaining madrasas in phases,” Nahid said.
Saudi Arab has incorporated science education including chemistry, physics, mathematics along with Islamic
education aimed at retaining the glory of Muslim world as once it had made remarkable advancement in
different branches of science, he added. “We have to follow the same footstep of introducing science education alongside Islamic education to offer modern madrasa education. In order to fulfill the target, we have set up 35 model madrasas, where science and technology have been included,” the minister added.
