Nahid for effective plans to promote technical education

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said effective plans should be taken to promote technical education to achieve the targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, reports BSS.

“We have attached top priority to expansion of technical and vocational education to ensure better access of students to job markets,” he told a  meeting on "Technical and Vocational Educational and Training (TVET)" in the conference room of the Education Ministry in Dhaka, an official release said.

Chief coordinator of SDGs Md Abul Kalam Azad, Secretary of Secondary and Higher Education Md Sohorab Hossain and Secretary of Technical and Madrasa Education Division Md Alamgir, among others, addressed the meeting

Director General of Directorate of Technical Education Ashok Kumar Biswas made a power-point presentation on development plan of TVET at the meeting. Nahid said the government has set a target of 30 percent enrolment in technical education by 2030 aiming to transform Bangladesh into an economically-developed country. In 2009, there was only one per cent student enrolment in the technical education while the current enrolment rate is 14 per cent,” he added.

Nahid for effective plans to promote technical education

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said effective plans should be taken to promote technical education to achieve the targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, reports BSS. We have attached top priority to expansion of technical and vocational education to ensure better access of students to job markets, he told a meeting on Technical and Vocational Educational and Training (TVET) in the conference room of the Education Ministry in Dhaka, an official release said. Chief coordinator of SDGs Md Abul Kalam Azad, Secretary of Secondary and Higher Education Md Sohorab Hossain and Secretary of Technical and Madrasa Education Division Md Alamgir, among others, addressed the meeting Director General of Directorate of Technical Education Ashok Kumar Biswas made a power-point presentation on development plan of TVET at the meeting. Nahid said the government has set a target of 30 percent enrolment in technical education by 2030 aiming to transform Bangladesh into an economically-developed country. In 2009, there was only one per cent student enrolment in the technical education while the current enrolment rate is 14 per cent, he added.