The Department of Technical Education (DTE), through the Skills 21 project, will start a year-round campaign to increase the popularity of TVET. The campaign strategy has been developed with theassistance of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the implementor of the Skills 21 project funded by the European Union.
An orientation workshop was held in Dhaka on implementing this campaign strategy on Saturday. Principals, Chief Instructors and officials of various technical education and training institutes, including polytechnic institutes, technical schools and colleges of the country and officials of the Technical and Madrasah Education Division (TMED) and DTE, took part in the workshop.
The workshop was inaugurated by the Secretary of the Technical and Madrasah Education Division, Md. Aminul Islam Khan. “Creating young people’s interest in technical education is an important task at the moment,” he said.
“Research is underway in developed countries as well as in developing countries to expand technical education. The Government of Bangladesh has also made it a priority in the continuity of development.” he added.
Tuomo Poutiainen, Country Director of the International Labour Organization, said,“The awareness-raising could only be effective when it reflects the stakeholders’ right messages, language, and communication channels. The campaign aims to use specific media to convey particular messages to the audiences, such as skills training, job opportunities, and decent employment.”
Maurizio Cian, Head of Cooperation of the European Union, said at the workshop that the European Union has been working since 2007 to reform Bangladesh’s technical education system. Funding has been provided to develop the National Skills Development Policy-2011, NTVQF, quality assurance system etc.