To build the nation and to survive in this competitive world, there is no investment more important than education, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
She said Bangladesh is now quite self-reliant economically and the government is spending the lion’s share of the resources on education.
“With this, the merits and talents [of students] will flourish, and brilliant students will think about the development of the country,” Hasina said.
“I don’t think expenditure on the education sector as expenditure at all, I think this is investment, the biggest investment which will build the nation,” she said on Wednesday while marking the distribution of Bangladesh University Grants Commission’s (UGC’s) gold medals among the winners of 2013 and 2014.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, among others, spoke at the programme held with UGC chairman Prof Abdul Mannan in the chair.
Hasina said there is no scope to stay behind when the world is moving fast. “Keeping that view in mind, we’re establishing subject-wise specialized universities across the country,” she said.
The Prime Minister said there will be one medical university in each division. “The work to establish medical universities in Chittagong and Rajshahi is on. We plan to set up medical university in each division.”
The Prime Minister said the world is moving very fast and getting more competitive every day. “We’ll also have to move fast to cope with the pace.”
She also mentioned that new technologies are being invented every day and children will have to adapt to those accordingly.
Source: The Daily Ittefaq
