Role of technical and vocational education coupled with post-education employment can be the crucial means of smart Bangladesh envisioned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Simultaneously, technical and vocational students should be enriched with power of skill and innovation for transforming themselves into competent workforces to meet the gradually mounting demands of the modern era.
Technical experts came up with the observation while addressing a seminar styled "Role of Technical Education and Way Forward in building Smart Bangladesh" and Skills Competition- 2023 held here today.
Rajshahi Mohila Polytechnic Institute (RMPI) organized the seminar and competition at its conference hall to mark the Technical and Vocational Education Week- 2023 supported by the Technical and Madrasha Education Division and the Department of Technical Education.
RMPI Librarian Abu Nasir Muhammad Siddique Hossain and Instructor Tahmid Sadique presented the keynote paper titled "TVET Enrolment Current Trends and Strategies to Build Smart Bangladesh" in the seminar with RMPI Principal Omar Faruque in the chair.
District Education Officer Nasir Uddin, local unit president of Institution of Diploma Engineers Aminul Haque, Assistant Director of the Department of Social Services Dr Abdullah Al Firoj and Principal of Technical Training Center Engineer Imdadul Haque spoke on the occasion as resource persons disseminating their expertise on the issue.
The speakers opined that all students of diploma engineering courses must attain competency as it is very important for their success in professional life.
Education Officer Nasir Uddin said the present government under the prudent and farsighted leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has attached priority to the technical and vocational educations for boosting the number of competent workforces. The government has been expanding technical institutions to the grassroots level aimed at transforming the youths living in villages into competent workforce through bringing them under the need-based technical and vocational educations.
In the daylong contest, 15 innovations and projects were presented for evaluation. Of those, three projects, 'Smart Voice Control System with Artificial Intelligences', 'DOERS, International Online Marketplace Web Application' and 'Mango Delight', were judged as first, second and third respectively.
On the occasion, memorandums of understanding have also been signed with six industrial establishments for employment of the RMPI technical and vocational graduates.