Bangladesh makes sure uninterrupted quality education: PM, The COVID-19 epidemic and the Russia-Ukraine war both presented obstacles to the education sector, but Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina emphasized today that her government had taken every precaution to prevent this. When announcing the results of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and comparable exams at the PMO in Tejgaon, she said, “Coronavirus and war caused many challenges for us.
Bangladesh makes sure uninterrupted quality education: PM
The premier said the situation required her government to be more cautious and economical, but the uninterrupted education process must not be compromised. “So we are taking all measures to make sure the education system never falls behind,” she said Sheikh Hasina said her government is making education multidimensional considering the ever-changing world with invention of newer technologies and advancement of science to prepare the new generations with appropriate education as they can compete in modern society.
Calling the youths as the power of Bangladesh, she opined that it is required to make them worthy for the fourth industrial revolution. The prime minister said the fourth industrial revolution is knocking at the door and it would be transformed into a digitised system in the age of science and technology. She said her government is attaching topmost priority to build skilled manpower as their demands are increasing rapidly at home and abroad at the advent of the fourth industrial revolution.
“We have to take initiative to educate our children from the very childhood in such a way as they can cope with the changes since the inception of the fourth industrial revolution,” she added. The premier said they are setting up 100 economic zones across the country in where foreign and local investments will come in large numbers and it requires huge skilled manpower. She said she is not in favour of sending Bangladeshis abroad as unskilled rather she wants to send them as competent manpower.
“So, we’re making the education multi-dimensional (incorporating science, technology and vocational medium to education) so our country can take advantage (of the modern education),” she said. The students are getting the chance of taking vocational education and training since class six which will help them build their fortunes as not everyone will go to a high position after having a BA and MA degree. The prime minister reiterated her call to all to study attentively as none can fail in the examinations after expressing her heartfelt greetings to the students who passed successfully and wishing best of luck to others for the next time.
She asked the guardians to change the mindset that their children would get no education unless they study in some famous schools despite many noted dignitaries including knowledgeable persons, scientists, civil service officers and leaders in the country came out of district schools. “So, such schools should not be neglected,” she said, adding that it is easy for the good schools to get good results by dealing with good students.
The prime minister said the credit should go to those (teachers or schools) who can make their mediocre students qualified. “They should be given support and rewarded,” she added. The prime minister said her government has given topmost priority to education as she believed no country can eradicate poverty without education.
She gave a brief description of her government initiatives such as giving text books free of cost, stipends and scholarships to the students, introducing free school feeding, setting up new schools, colleges, universities on general, medical, science and technology for overall development of the education.
“We have implemented the millennium development goals successfully and are in hot pursuit to implement the sustainable development goals in due time,” she said “We have attained the status of a developing nation. So, we have to work with a target that we never fall back from developing nation status,” she said.
In this Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Education Minister Dr. Dipu Moni gave the premier the results’ statistics and summary. Among those present at the event were the Secondary and Higher Education Division Secretary Md. Abu Bakr Siddique and Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury. The results had already been distributed by the chairs of 11 education boards, including nine general, one madrasah, and one for technical education. This year, 19,94,137 candidates took the SSC and equivalent exams, and 17,43,619 of them passed them with an overall pass rate of 87.44 percent.