Wide-ranging promotion of sci-tech sector stressed

RAJSHAHI, June 16 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion here said the science teachers of the schools could play due role towards substantial and sustainable boosting the number of science-minded students which is very important for flourishing the sector of information and communication technology.
They viewed there is no way but to wide-ranging promotion of the science and technology sector to take forward the nation successfully.
They were addressing the closing and certificate-giving ceremony of a three-day motivational training workshop for the school teachers held at Rajshahi Teachers Training College (RTTC) Monday.
Center for Capacity Building of Voluntary Organisation (CCBVO) and Bangladesh Freedom Foundation (BFF) jointly organised the workshop in association with RTTC with the main thrust of elevating professional competence of the teachers.
More than 60 teachers from Rangpur, Khulna and the host Rajshahi divisions took part in the course financially supported by Science Education Development in Secondary Schools Project.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education Development and ICT) addressed the session and distributed certificates among the participants with Sarwar-E-Kamal Swapan, Executive Chief of CCBVO, in the chair.
The discussants referred to various aspects of expanding science education towards doorsteps of both rural and urban students and said there is no alternative to acquiring scientific knowledge to devise ways and means how to make the nation technologically advanced.
"To build science-minded atmosphere: Technology is only the way of progress" should be our main slogan, they unequivocally said.
The speakers viewed that the nation needs creation of a more science- minded workforce to enrich the sectors of scientific research and information and communication technologies to meet its gradually increasing demand.
Later on, they visited the stalls and urged upon the participants to disseminate the innovation among others as well as the students properly so that they could be built as science-minded from beginning of their life.