Quality education still big challenge
Although the number of students has increased in Bangladesh, the quality of education remains a big challenge, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said yesterday, as he inaugurated the website of the country's first maritime university.
He said quality enhancement was impossible without skilled teachers. "We're trying to do it but it can't happen overnight; progress is being made day by day," he told a seminar at the capital's Ruposhi Bangla Hotel.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Maritime University organised the seminar, "Global Maritime Challenges and Role of Maritime Higher Education in Bangladesh", where its website www.bsmrmu.edu.bd was launched.
The university will start its academic session in next January. The area for building its campus has been fixed yet.
Nahid said there were only 12 universities in the world like this one.
Bangladesh has achieved vast swathes of areas and huge resources in the Bay of Bengal after winning two verdicts--one against India and the other against Myanmar--in international courts but the country has to use the resources properly, he said.
"We have to boost our knowledge, skills and ramp up research on this. This university has opened a window of opportunities for all this," he said.
Real Admiral ASM Abdul Baten, the vice chancellor of BSMRMU, said the university was now at its formative stage, and they would gradually build it into a centre for excellence of maritime education.
The specialised institution will run both under-graduate and postgraduate programmes across a wide range of disciplines, he said.
The proposed areas of study include maritime governance and policy, shipping administration, earth and ocean science, maritime engineering and technology, and maritime business administration.
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