A six-day training programme on “Teaching Quality Improvement (TQI)” jointly organized by the Institute of Education and Research (IER) of Dhaka University and the Ministry of Education began on Monday at the IER Building on the campus.
Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr. AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated it as the chief guest.
Director of the IER of DU Prof Md Abdul Awal Khan presided over the function while Director of TQI Project Bannamali Bhowmick addressed it as special guest. Project Coordinator Prof Quazi Afroz Jahanara delivered the welcome speech.
Prof Arefin urged the teachers to present themselves as icon personality for the students in their daily life. They have to deliver comprehensive lecture for the students to make them future leaders in the country as well as forward looking citizen, he said.
“Teachers have to be well prepared to present lecture before the students. They should play the pioneering role to develop mental faculty of the students”, he mentioned.
The VC paid glowing tributes to the memory of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the month of national mourning.
He said Bangabandhu had stressed the need for development of education system in the country. Therefore, he had formed the Dr. Qudrat-e-Khuda Education Commission and nationalized all the primary schools during his regime, he pointed out.
The VC said Bangladesh could have achieved hundred percent literacy rate, if Bangabandhu remained alive till now.
