Conventional education in the face of challenges: Warns the telecom Minister
Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar has advised students to acquire digital skills along with paper and pen, warning that the conventional education system is facing challenges due to the digital industrial revolution. He also urged to take precautionary measures as unemployment will increase in the country if this happens.
The Minister said that students need to acquire digital skills to meet the challenges of the digital age.
The minister commented so while addressing a virtual discussion meeting on the occasion of the 15th founding anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam University at Trishal in Mymensingh on Sunday evening.
MP Hafeez Ruhul Amin Madani, President of Greater Mymensingh Coordinating Council Abul Kalam Azad and drama personality Mahmud Sajjad Hossain spoke on the occasion while SM Mostafizur Rahman, Vice-Chancellor of the University acted as the chairman of the program.
The Minister highlighted the need for expansion of digitally useful education without limiting the educational activities to the syllabus and textbooks of the conventional system to prepare the students of the university to meet the challenges of the future. He said the scope of knowledge has gone beyond paper books. Mr. Mustafa Jabbar, the pioneer of Bangla language input in computers, said, not all students need to be computer scientists. However, everyone must acquire a minimum of digital skills. Our boys and girls are very talented. He mentioned that it is essential to take an enterprising role in learning the basics of smartphones, computers, the internet etc.
Mostafa Jabbar, the President of Greater Mymensingh Cultural Forumsaid, Kazi Nazrul Islam's memory is intertwined in Trishal. We have to uphold that ideal of equality and non-communal consciousness. This is how we can show due respect to Nazrul. He said that out of the nearly seven and a half thousand students of the National Poet Kazi Nazrul University, about eighty percent are residents of greater Mymensingh. The Greater Mymensingh Cultural Forum has set a unique example by initiating such great work. At the same time, the Minister highlighted the landmark programs of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in spreading education.
The minister commented that if this university had not been established in Trishal, it would have been difficult for many local students to pursue higher education. He assured the concerned people to render all possible cooperation to make the university an exemplary institution for building creative people.
