Major training programme for job seekers abroad
Sunday, 23 March 2008
FHM Humayan Kabir
The government has taken a major programme to develop skilled manpower who would be adequately trained to secure better jobs abroad, officials said Saturday.
The programme, to be implemented at a cost of US$ 50 million, will be financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), they added.
"Under the programme, the government's existing technical educational institutions will be additionally equipped to impart proper training. They will offer demand-driven courses considering the national and international job markets," an official of the education ministry told the FE.
"The government is eyeing the international job markets where a lot of skilled workers will be required within the next few years. If we can develop the skilled manpower Bangladesh can be a major global player in supplying skilled labour and earn foreign exchange for its coffer," he said.
"The Asian Development Bank will provide $50 million to upgrade the local technical institutions for developing skilled and world-standard workforce," an official source said.
"We have already completed negotiations with the ADB in mid-March and the loan agreement is expected to be signed by June this year," he added.
Bangladesh in recent days has emerged as a major foreign exchange earner from the remittance, sent by non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) working in different foreign countries.
Bangladesh Bank statistics said during July to January of current fiscal, the NRBs remitted $ 4.15 billion to the country. In 2006-07, the workers sent home $6.0 billion and in the previous fiscal $4.8 billion in remittances.
A total of 578,205 Bangladeshis went abroad taking job during the first seven months of the current fiscal. Some 563,644 workers went abroad in fiscal 2006-07 and 286,381 in the previous fiscal, Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training and the central bank statistics said.
Under the demand-driven technical education programme, the government will mainly emphasise on three sectors namely shipbuilding, textile and ready-made garment and the light engineering.
"The skilled-manpower will be developed in the existing technical and vocational training centres and educational institutions so that they can contribute to the domestic job markets as well as the international ones," the education ministry official said.
The official said that since Bangladesh has so far not supplied much skilled manpower to the international job markets, the programme will help to upgrade the qualification of the foreign-bound workers.
The government has taken a major programme to develop skilled manpower who would be adequately trained to secure better jobs abroad, officials said Saturday.
The programme, to be implemented at a cost of US$ 50 million, will be financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), they added.
"Under the programme, the government's existing technical educational institutions will be additionally equipped to impart proper training. They will offer demand-driven courses considering the national and international job markets," an official of the education ministry told the FE.
"The government is eyeing the international job markets where a lot of skilled workers will be required within the next few years. If we can develop the skilled manpower Bangladesh can be a major global player in supplying skilled labour and earn foreign exchange for its coffer," he said.
"The Asian Development Bank will provide $50 million to upgrade the local technical institutions for developing skilled and world-standard workforce," an official source said.
"We have already completed negotiations with the ADB in mid-March and the loan agreement is expected to be signed by June this year," he added.
Bangladesh in recent days has emerged as a major foreign exchange earner from the remittance, sent by non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) working in different foreign countries.
Bangladesh Bank statistics said during July to January of current fiscal, the NRBs remitted $ 4.15 billion to the country. In 2006-07, the workers sent home $6.0 billion and in the previous fiscal $4.8 billion in remittances.
A total of 578,205 Bangladeshis went abroad taking job during the first seven months of the current fiscal. Some 563,644 workers went abroad in fiscal 2006-07 and 286,381 in the previous fiscal, Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training and the central bank statistics said.
Under the demand-driven technical education programme, the government will mainly emphasise on three sectors namely shipbuilding, textile and ready-made garment and the light engineering.
"The skilled-manpower will be developed in the existing technical and vocational training centres and educational institutions so that they can contribute to the domestic job markets as well as the international ones," the education ministry official said.
The official said that since Bangladesh has so far not supplied much skilled manpower to the international job markets, the programme will help to upgrade the qualification of the foreign-bound workers.