BSS, Dhaka :
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the number of technical students will be raised to 20 percent from the existing 8 percent of the country’s total students by 2020.
“We will give the highest priority to expansion of technical education to ensure national growth,” he said this while inaugurating a daylong workshop on technical education at the conference room of directorate of technical education here.
Noting that numbers of technical education students in Korea, Singapore, China, Japan and different European countries are more than 50 percent of the numbers of their total pupils in their respective countries, the minister said “in 2009, the rate was one percent in Bangladesh which now stood at 8 percent. Presently thousands of talented students would like to enroll in technical education,” he said.
Nahid said the government has taken four projects for development of the technical education. Under the projects, initiatives have been taken to impart training to teachers, award scholarship to students and make infrastructural development at different institutes. So far, the government provided training to 13,000 teachers, appointed 1000 new teachers and set up 256 multimedia classes at different technical education institutes across the country under the endeavor, he said.
The minister said the education ministry has already formulated time befitting syllabus for technical education considering demand of investors and foreign markets. “We will take all possible measures for development of the technical education,” he said.
Presided over by director general of directorate of technical education M Shahjahan Mia, the inaugural ceremony was also addressed by education secretary N I Khan and additional education secretary Sohrab Hossain.
