Vocational education can boost foreign remittance: Speakers

RAJSHAHI, May 22 (BSS): Speakers at a teacher's conference here Saturday night emphasised the need for substantial promotion of vocational education for the sake of bolstering the country's skilled human resource sector for more foreign remittance earning. They said the promoted vocational and technical education could be the effective means of reducing the unemployment problem through creating more employment scopes. Rajshahi Regional Committee of Bangladesh Vocational Teachers Association organised its divisional conference-2011 and discussion titled "National Education Policy Implementation and Our Expectation" at Zila Parishad Auditorium. Addressing as the chief guest Mayor of Rajshahi AHM Khairuzzaman Liton urged upon the vocational teachers to discharge their duties with utmost sincerity and honesty for building a knowledge and technology-based society. He also called for proper implementation of the newly formulated national education policy for making the country's educational sector more effective and time-fitting. Mayor Liton emphasised the need for reflecting the hopes and aspirations of the people in general through implementation of the education policy. He viewed that the present government has formulated the new education policy incorporating various measures to make the education sector beneficial to the people as well as the country. With Central Committee Vice- president of the association Mahfuz Hassan in the chair, Deputy Examination Controller of Bangladesh Technical Education Board Nur Elahi and association leaders Sheikh Rafiqul Islam, Mosaddeque Hossain Alamgir, Shikder Abdul Halim, Kabir Uddin, Markum Hassan and Mijanur Rahman also spoke on the occasion. Mayor Liton said the government has been working relentlessly to make the country's educational system time-fitting and need- oriented to take the nation towards prosperity. He said the spirit of the Great War of Liberation was reflected in the new education policy and that could be the effective tools for taking the nation towards prosperity. "We have no alternative to implement the policy to fulfill the hopes and aspiration of the people side by side with institutionalisation of democracy," said Liton. In the context, he the government has formulated the education policy and it is pledge- bound to its implementation for building a digital Bangladesh. He urged all concerned including the teachers to extend their whole-hearted cooperation to fulfill the government pledge.