A three-day international conference on Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) will begin in the capital on April 30 (Thursday) with a view to promoting practical education in the country.
Over 1,000 experts, particularly from the technical education sector from home and abroad, are expected to participate in the mega event.
President of Institute of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB) AKMA Hamid said these at a press conference on Saturday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the conference, what he termed first of its kind in Bangladesh, at 10:30 am at Osmani Memorial Auditorium.
IDEB and Colombo Plan Staff College (CPSC), Manila are jointly organising the programme in association with Ministry of Education, Canada, World Bank, National Skills Development Council (NSDC), Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Technical Education Board, International Labour Organisation (ILO) and Skill and Training Enhancement Project (STEP).
The IDEB president, who is also chairman of the TVET conference steering committee, said the programme will work as a platform for practitioners, educationists and entrepreneurs to formulate a TVET policy as well as to simplify exchanges of results and experiences of bilateral researches on technical and vocational education and training.
The main topics the conference will include re-orienting TVET policy and education for sustainable development, challenges and future trends in polytechnic education, innovative practices and approaches in technical teachers' education, green and clean technology approach in industry, accreditation and cross mobility for TVET workforce and research, and monitoring and evaluation in TVET etc.
Member Secretary of the organising committee Md Shamsur Rahman, among others, addressed the briefing.
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