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Govt targets 30pc enrolment in technical education by 2030: Nahid
DHAKA, Sept 27, 2018 (BSS) – Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today
said the government has set a target of 30 percent student’s enrolment in
technical education by 2030.
“The government has brought a significant change in technical education in
the last nine years…it has set a target of 30 percent student’s enrolment
in technical education by 2030,” he said while addressing the inaugural
session of the 5th Skills Competion-2018 at IDEB auditorium at Kakrail here.
The competition is arranged by Skills & Training Enhancement Project
(STEP) under the Technical Education Directorate of Technical and Madrassa
Education Division.
Speaking on the occasion, Nahid said: “In 2009, there was only one percent
student enrolment in the technical education, but current enrolment rate in
technical education is 14 percent.”
“We are promoting knowledge-based education to develop skilled manpower to
build Bangladesh as a middle-income country by 2021 and a developed one by
2041,” he said.
The education minister underscored the need for creating skilled workforce
as per the growing demand of investors.
Additional secretary AKM Zakir Hossain Bhuiyan, director general of
Technical Education Directorate Ashoke Kumar Biswas, Bangladesh Technical
Education Board chairman Dr Md Mostafizur Rahman and additional secretary
Rownak Mahmud, among others, spoke at the function with secretary of
Technical and Madrasa Education Division Md Alamgir in the chair.
‘Skills Competition’ has been organised in the country since 2014. This
competition is organised to develop talent and innovative power of diploma-
in-engineering students of polytechnic institutes.
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