Graduates urged to face challenges with skills
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
GAZIPUR, Nov 2 (BSS): Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has suggested the new graduates of Islamic University of Technology (IUT) to face future challenges with the knowledge and skills they acquired from the university.
"You will need to overcome numerous challenges like poverty and hunger, scarcity of food and energy, climate change and natural disasters," she told the students while addressing the 24th convocation ceremony of IUT Tuesday.
Hasina said, "As scientists and technical experts, you need to find innovative ways for adapting to climate change, the usage of renewable sources of energy, ensuring abundance of food for all and keeping the planet alive from the onslaught of pollution."
She recalled that the contribution of the greatest Bangali of all times Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led Bangladesh to join the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in August, 1974.
Hasina praised the achievements of the OIC and Bangladesh in establishing the IUT, which has now grown as a premier institution of science and engineering with students' enrolment from all over the Muslim world.
She called upon the authorities concerned including the OIC to begin admission of female students soon into the IUT to create more opportunities for the women in higher education.
"It is heartening that the IUT has taken initiative for admitting female students. I wish to see convocation with female graduates receiving degrees of diplomas," she said.
The PM urged the OIC to build a female hostel quickly and begin admission of female students soon in the IUT, a subsidiary organ of the OIC.
About the new National Education Policy-2010, Hasina said the policy had been announced targeting gender equality in education, free education for both genders up to graduate level and achieving cent percent literacy rate by 2014.
"It also aims at integrating various systems including Madrasahs, with a unified curriculum to establish knowledge and technology based 'Digital Bangladesh'," she added.
The Prime Minister said implementing 'Vision 2021' of the present government would also be a step towards achieving "Golden Bangladesh" as dreamt by the Father of the Nation.
Vice-Chancellor of the university Prof M Imtiaz Hossain gave address of welcome, while Registrar of the university Ahsan Habib made concluding remarks in the function.
Besides, a message of Secretary General of the OIC and Chancellor of the university Prof Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was read out by Assistant Secretary General Ambassador Abdul Moiz Bokhari.
The PM distributed certificates among the newly graduated students, and OIC and IUT Gold Medals-2010 among four students for their outstanding results in their bachelor and master degree examinations this year.
Monjurul Ehsan from the Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering got the OIC Gold Medal-2010 in Bachelor of Science (BSc) Degree.
Besides, Khan Md Foysal from Technical Education Department in Masters of Science, SM Masudur Rahman Al-Arif in BSc from Electoral and Electronic Engineering and Abid Hasan in BSc from Computer Science and Information Technology received IUT Gold Medal-2010 for their outstanding results in the examinations.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid attended the function.
Ministers, advisers to the PM, parliament members, diplomats, academics and high government officials, among others, were also present.
"You will need to overcome numerous challenges like poverty and hunger, scarcity of food and energy, climate change and natural disasters," she told the students while addressing the 24th convocation ceremony of IUT Tuesday.
Hasina said, "As scientists and technical experts, you need to find innovative ways for adapting to climate change, the usage of renewable sources of energy, ensuring abundance of food for all and keeping the planet alive from the onslaught of pollution."
She recalled that the contribution of the greatest Bangali of all times Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led Bangladesh to join the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in August, 1974.
Hasina praised the achievements of the OIC and Bangladesh in establishing the IUT, which has now grown as a premier institution of science and engineering with students' enrolment from all over the Muslim world.
She called upon the authorities concerned including the OIC to begin admission of female students soon into the IUT to create more opportunities for the women in higher education.
"It is heartening that the IUT has taken initiative for admitting female students. I wish to see convocation with female graduates receiving degrees of diplomas," she said.
The PM urged the OIC to build a female hostel quickly and begin admission of female students soon in the IUT, a subsidiary organ of the OIC.
About the new National Education Policy-2010, Hasina said the policy had been announced targeting gender equality in education, free education for both genders up to graduate level and achieving cent percent literacy rate by 2014.
"It also aims at integrating various systems including Madrasahs, with a unified curriculum to establish knowledge and technology based 'Digital Bangladesh'," she added.
The Prime Minister said implementing 'Vision 2021' of the present government would also be a step towards achieving "Golden Bangladesh" as dreamt by the Father of the Nation.
Vice-Chancellor of the university Prof M Imtiaz Hossain gave address of welcome, while Registrar of the university Ahsan Habib made concluding remarks in the function.
Besides, a message of Secretary General of the OIC and Chancellor of the university Prof Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was read out by Assistant Secretary General Ambassador Abdul Moiz Bokhari.
The PM distributed certificates among the newly graduated students, and OIC and IUT Gold Medals-2010 among four students for their outstanding results in their bachelor and master degree examinations this year.
Monjurul Ehsan from the Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering got the OIC Gold Medal-2010 in Bachelor of Science (BSc) Degree.
Besides, Khan Md Foysal from Technical Education Department in Masters of Science, SM Masudur Rahman Al-Arif in BSc from Electoral and Electronic Engineering and Abid Hasan in BSc from Computer Science and Information Technology received IUT Gold Medal-2010 for their outstanding results in the examinations.
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid attended the function.
Ministers, advisers to the PM, parliament members, diplomats, academics and high government officials, among others, were also present.