Best use of tech in edn a must to build skilled human resources
Says education minister
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid goes around stalls after inaugurating a new range of materials and services by the British Council for learners and teachers of English at a city hotel yesterday. Photo: Focus Bangla
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the government wants to make the best use of new technologies in the education system to build efficient human resources for meeting the challenges of 21st century. "We need to focus on our development needs and incorporate technology into teaching and learning method," he said. The minister was speaking at the launching of a new range of materials and services by the British Council for learners and teachers of English. British Council organised the launching ceremony at a city hotel where the new global materials including web-based and online resources, CD-ROMs, materials for newspapers and radios were put on display. Inaugurating the materials, the minister said learning will not be limited to the classrooms only as technologies of digital libraries, video lectures and multimedia classrooms will be introduced. English is and has always been an important tool for development, he said. He added that National Education Policy 2010, recently approved by the government, puts special emphasis on using technologies to learn subjects especially maths, science education and English language. Nahid said the government plans to make Infor-mation and Communi-cation Technology (IT) education compulsory at secondary level by 2013 and at primary level by 2021. "We need to provide vocational and lifelong education opportunities for youths to enhance their productivity," he added. Charles Nuttall, director of the British Council, said English is the primary language of communications, information technology, business, aviation, entertainment, diplomacy, radio, and of course science. He said out of 162 million people in Bangladesh only 3.5 million people can use English effectively. These resources would be of great use to people, as they will be able to improve their language skills within their own time and pace. The materials and resources put in the display are “Teaching English (TE)”, “Teaching English Radio”, “Teaching Speaking Training Video”, “Learn Website”, “Learn English Newspapers” and “Premier Skills”. Andy Jones, English language training consultant of British Council and Nick Low, deputy high commissioner of British High Commission, also spoke on the occasion.
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