Improving quality of technical education

The government should put emphasis on making the country’s technical institutes more effective

An agreement was signed between Directorate of Technical Education and TMSS Technical Institute (TTI) aiming at supplementing the efforts of the government to improve standard of technical education, according to a report in this newspaper on Saturday. Due to lack of adequate technical education thousands of youths in the country are bearing the brunt of unemployment. Sheer frustration is eating into their vitals. There are people who, equipped with proper skills, even do not care for employments, rather they create employments for themselves and others.    
These people have great demand in their native land as well as in the global job markets. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis went to different countries, particularly in the Middle East countries, to change their lot. But all of them are not skilled workers. Those who went abroad without equipping themselves with the requisite skills are doing menial jobs. Since they have no bargaining power, they have to accept whatever jobs are offered to them. 
The opportunity to get government jobs is very limited in the country. After completion of education thousands of youths are crowding the job market every year. But very few of them are fortunate enough to get the same.  Many youths are going abroad spending huge sums of money to try their luck. In the absence of adequate technical education and skills many have to struggle for existence in foreign lands. Many ill-fated ones return to their homes being cheated by dishonest manpower agents and human traffickers.   
There are immense possibilities for the youths of the country to become self-reliant by engaging themselves in various income-generating activities. They can do it by gaining technical education and skills from the technical training centres. There are technical training centres at the district headquarters. After receiving training from the centres the enterprising youths can go abroad with suitable jobs. Those who are not willing to go abroad can set up projects like dairy and poultry farms, pisciculture, nurseries welding shops, etc. by taking bank loans on easy terms and conditions. In this way they can achieve solvency and improve the economic conditions of their families remarkably. Such technical training centres can also be set up at upazila levels to facilitate the people living at the grassroots level. The government should put emphasis on making the country’s technical and vocational training institutes need-oriented and effective for generating more competent workforce. 

Improving quality of technical education

The government should put emphasis on making the countrys technical institutes more effective

An agreement was signed between Directorate of Technical Education and TMSS Technical Institute (TTI) aiming at supplementing the efforts of the government to improve standard of technical education, according to a report in this newspaper on Saturday. Due to lack of adequate technical education thousands of youths in the country are bearing the brunt of unemployment. Sheer frustration is eating into their vitals. There are people who, equipped with proper skills, even do not care for employments, rather they create employments for themselves and others. These people have great demand in their native land as well as in the global job markets. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis went to different countries, particularly in the Middle East countries, to change their lot. But all of them are not skilled workers. Those who went abroad without equipping themselves with the requisite skills are doing menial jobs. Since they have no bargaining power, they have to accept whatever jobs are offered to them. The opportunity to get government jobs is very limited in the country. After completion of education thousands of youths are crowding the job market every year. But very few of them are fortunate enough to get the same. Many youths are going abroad spending huge sums of money to try their luck. In the absence of adequate technical education and skills many have to struggle for existence in foreign lands. Many ill-fated ones return to their homes being cheated by dishonest manpower agents and human traffickers. There are immense possibilities for the youths of the country to become self-reliant by engaging themselves in various income-generating activities. They can do it by gaining technical education and skills from the technical training centres. There are technical training centres at the district headquarters. After receiving training from the centres the enterprising youths can go abroad with suitable jobs. Those who are not willing to go abroad can set up projects like dairy and poultry farms, pisciculture, nurseries welding shops, etc. by taking bank loans on easy terms and conditions. In this way they can achieve solvency and improve the economic conditions of their families remarkably. Such technical training centres can also be set up at upazila levels to facilitate the people living at the grassroots level. The government should put emphasis on making the countrys technical and vocational training institutes need-oriented and effective for generating more competent workforce.