Violence harming children's growth

National progress of Bangladesh will be severely affected in future if children grow amid panic prevailing across the country, said Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday.

“It affects their psychological growth. We will have to pay for it for 30 to 40 years,” he told the inauguration of the two-day Education UK Exhibition 2015 at a hotel in the capital as chief guest.

An atmosphere must be created so that the children can grow up with confidence, he said.

British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert W Gibson and British Council Bangladesh Country Director Barbara Wickham, among others, attended the function.

A total of 38 higher education institutions of the UK are participating in the exhibition that remains open for all from 12:00pm to 6:00pm at Sonargoan hotel, Dhaka.

In Chittagong, it will remain open at The Peninsula on Sunday and at the Rose View Hotel in Sylhet on Wednesday during the same hours. The entry fee is Tk 50.