Govt to increase technical education enrollment-rate by 50pc

Education minister Dipu Moni on Friday said the government has set a target to increase the enrollment rate of technical education to 50 per cent by 2050.

“The government has set a target to increase the enrollment rate of technical education to 50 per cent by 2050. For this, we have to build technology based skilled human resources,” she said.

The minister was speaking at an online seminar on the importance of technical education for the fourth industrial revolution as the chief guest under the arrangement of the Bangladesh Technical Education Board.

Deputy minister for education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury and technical and madrasah education division secretary Md Aminul Islam Khan were present as special guests at the seminar.