Chairman of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation Salim Uddin said if the national budget 2020-21 is successfully implemented, it would have a positive impact on the social and economic spheres. He welcomed the total budgetary allocation relating to human resource. He said substantial allocation have been given...
Universities in Bangladesh, especially the private ones, have been quite proactive in their efforts to enrol students in online classes after the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC) cleared the way for virtual admissions and education platforms. Enrolment in digital courses was also accelerated after Education Minister...
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Saturday said the coronavirus pandemic is also creating technology-based jobs and employment opportunities. "Many people are losing their jobs due to coronavirus outbreak. At the same time, many new jobs and employment opportunities are being created," he said. The state...
Remittance has been on the rise in recent years riding on an annual export of more than 7 lakh economic migrants since 2016 – in a development that has helped the government manage the economy smoothly. But the manpower export is expected to witness an alarming fall this...
Modernization of the educational curriculum is crucial for
Bangladesh in order to make it more demand-based, as well as revive skills and
raise skills of the country’s workers to tackle the unemployment situation in
the post-Covid world, the nation’s business community observed on Saturday. Additionally,
the community has also emphasised the...
Fifty per cent of students of the country will be brought under vocational and technical education to address the lack of skilled manpower and ensure demographic dividend in coming days, said Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury, the deputy minister for education, yesterday. He also put emphasis on expanding nursing...
Governments across the world are trying to save lives by preventing the spread of coronavirus through the implementation of various measures, such as social distancing guidelines and nationwide lockdowns. Although these measures are put in place to safeguard public health, they do impede the production process of...
Bangladesh expects a bigger inflow of foreign direct investment in the days to come as different nations plan to relocate their factories to countries like Bangladesh to bring down cost amid a cash crunch caused by the pandemic, said Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday. In 2019, the...
HSBC Bangladesh and non-governmental organisation Ucep Bangladesh have teamed up to provide training on skills and capacity development to underprivileged young people to prepare them for today's workplace. The two signed an agreement to run the HSBC–Ucep Skills Development Programme at an event at the Pan Pacific...