Giving need-based education the highest priority
Sunday, 19 April 2009
A complete overhaul of the education system of Bangladesh is very necessary. The present system produces mainly literates or generalists. They are of no use for the country's development or economic needs. The thrust right from the primary to secondary and higher secondary stages should be on need-based education. Agricultural, vocational, scientific, technical and managerial education should form important components of progressive syllabuses throughout these stages. A sea change will have to be achieved in teachers' training, recasting of syllabuses and other related matters.
Substantial investments are required to build specialised educational or training institutions to create diverse human resources in fields such as leather technology, fashion designing, marine technology, agro-products processing, information technology, seafood processing, modern farming, etc. Investments in these specialised and sector-based educational institutions can have the most effect in taking care of the supply-side requirements to help expedite economic growth.
Primary education is presently using up a lion's share of the education budget. While this emphasis may continue, very urgent steps need to be taken to invest much greater public resources on technical education. The number of engineering universities, colleges, technical institutes, polytechnics, etc., must be rapidly increased in the coming years so that education can become real-life-oriented and can create adequate human resources to work as catalysts for the aspired economic growth. Greater public sector investments in technical and higher education are also necessary because the majority of the potential students are in no position to afford such education at home or abroad.
Munira Hossein
Baridhara, Dhaka
Substantial investments are required to build specialised educational or training institutions to create diverse human resources in fields such as leather technology, fashion designing, marine technology, agro-products processing, information technology, seafood processing, modern farming, etc. Investments in these specialised and sector-based educational institutions can have the most effect in taking care of the supply-side requirements to help expedite economic growth.
Primary education is presently using up a lion's share of the education budget. While this emphasis may continue, very urgent steps need to be taken to invest much greater public resources on technical education. The number of engineering universities, colleges, technical institutes, polytechnics, etc., must be rapidly increased in the coming years so that education can become real-life-oriented and can create adequate human resources to work as catalysts for the aspired economic growth. Greater public sector investments in technical and higher education are also necessary because the majority of the potential students are in no position to afford such education at home or abroad.
Munira Hossein
Baridhara, Dhaka