RMMRU-WORKSHOP : ‘Reshuffle education curricula to emphasise vocational training’

University teachers and migration experts on Sunday called upon the government to strengthen vocational education by reshuffling the country’s education system.
Emphasizing on overseas employment by skilled workers, they said that mainstream education should be focused on vocational and technical education curricula to boost the inflow of foreign remittance.
They came up with the observations while speaking at a dissemination workshop on gendered practices of remittance use: implications for human resource and youth development at senate bhaban of Dhaka University.
Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, in collaboration with moving out poverty project of Research Programme Consortium funded by UK, organised the workshop.
RMMRU founding chair and DU professor of political science Tasneem Siddiqui said although two lakh jobs were annually created in the formal sector of the country, there were five lakh jobs created overseas for people from Bangladesh.
‘If the outgoing migrants are trained in vocational and technical skills, they will be able to earn more money and contribute to the national economy more,’ she said.
Professor Tasneem mentioned that neighboring India was going to open two crore technical training centers within two to five years to groom skilled workers with certificate accreditation from Germany.
Will Bangladeshis be able to compete with Indians in the global job markets? She questioned.
Tasneem called for development of human resources in the country by inter-linking the national education policy and National Skills Development Council.
DU professor of International Relations Rasheduzzaman said the society in Bangladesh has been changing very quickly and migration and remittances were playing significant role in this regard.
DU associate professor of International Relations Syeda Rozana Rashid, also lead researcher of RPC-Intra household Study, RMMRU, made a presentation at the workshop and said remittance had a positive impact in creation of jobs and youth aspirations in educations and migrations.
She also said remittances played a role in development of human resources and ensuring social safety net to make people better off.
Islami Bank head of foreign remittance service division of international banking wing, Maksudur Rahman, urged the authorities concerned to introduce positive issues about migration in the education curricula to change the mindset of the people about migration and overseas employment.
Professor Brian Shoesmith, senior adviser for strategic planning and board of trustees of university of liberal arts, who moderated the inaugural session of the workshop, emphasised on building trust of the migrants to boost reserve of foreign remittance.
‘The question of trust is very important,’ he said, adding that migrants have made contributions to the social and cultural dynamics of the country.

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