Govt targets 30pc enrolment in technical education: Nahid
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the government had set a target of 30 percent enrolment in technical education by 2030 aiming to transform Bangladesh into an economically developed country.
"In 2009, there were only one percent of the students enrolled in the technical education while the current enrolment is 14 percent," he told an orientation function at the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB), an official release said.
The orientation function was arranged for 349 students who got scholarships on technical education from the Chinese government.
Director General of Directorate of Technical Education Ashok Kumar Biswas and Chairman of Bangladesh Technical Education Board Md Mostafizur Rahman, among others, addressed the function with Secretary of Technical and Madrasa Education Division Md Alamgir in the chair.
Referring to different developed countries, Nahid said technical education enrolment rates of those countries were above 60 percent.
"We have also set a target to reach the 20 percent mark in technical education enrollment by 2020," he added.
Nahid said government polytechnic institutes would be set up at 23 districts while polytechnic schools would be set up in each upazila of the country.
"We are promoting knowledge-based education to develop skilled human resources to turn Bangladesh into a middle-income country. Education without skills will create a burden for the family as well as the nation," he said.
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