The government is giving technical and vocational education the highest priority to tackle unemployment and build a skilled workforce. As part of that, technical education will be made mandatory in textbooks from grade 6 at the secondary level, Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon has said.
He gave the announcement as chief guest at a ‘Leaders Training Seminar’ organised by Rotary Bangladesh at the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh (KIB) auditorium in the capital on Friday morning, June 19.
Signalling a sweeping overhaul of the country’s education system, Milon said: ‘We cannot turn the country into a factory of unemployment by giving everyone only conventional higher education. We must equip our students so they can establish themselves in the international labour market and contribute to global leadership. It is with that aim that the present government is reshaping the education system.’ He added that, to expand practical and job-oriented education, technical education would now be made mandatory for every student from the school level — that is, from grade 6.
The minister spoke of the government’s tough stance on bringing transparency to the examination system and curbing the misuse of technology. He announced that a new ‘Public Examination Act’ had been passed, under which anyone found using any form of ‘digital cheating’ or technological fraud inside or outside the exam hall would now face severe punishment.
Rotarians and education enthusiasts from various parts of the country attended the Rotary Bangladesh Leaders Training Seminar. There, the minister called on social organisations such as Rotary to work alongside the government in building the younger generation into skilled, modern citizens.
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