The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has said her government is underscoring diversification of education for time-befitting, job-oriented and science-based education for all.
'We have been working relentlessly for diversification of education to ensure time-befitting job-oriented and science-based education for all to keep pace with the modern world,' she said while inaugurating the admission process of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University, Gopalganj at her official Ganabhaban residence on Saturday.
Mentioning that no nation can prosper without education, the prime minister said the present government had been making all-out efforts to build a country free from poverty and illiteracy as dreamt by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
'Without education no nation can stand keeping its head high, while an educated country can present a developed nation,' she said.
Hasina said the aim of the government was to improve the quality of education and ensure higher education facilities for all. In this connection, she said the government had constituted a Tk 1000 crore trust fund to make easy access to higher education.
'Poor and meritorious students will be provided scholarships from this fund for higher education,' she said.
She called upon the well-off people of the society to come forward for the development and expansion of education and said tax waiving facilities would be given to those who contribute to the development of education.
She said there was no scope of frustration of the students for admission into the higher education as the government had taken necessary steps so that all students get facilities of enrolment to the higher educational institutions.
The prime minister said the previous Awami League government enacted a law for establishment of 12 public universities. Of them, she said, academic activities of four universities have already begun.
Hasina blamed the BNP-Jamaat alliance government and the subsequent caretaker government for their failure to develop the education sector and said her government wanted to ensure balanced development of the country in all the sectors including education.
She deplored the fact that the southern region of the country, particularly Gopalganj, remained deprived of higher education facilities for a long time and expressed hope that with the setting up of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University, the country would move a step forward in ensuring a balanced education system.
Referring to the establishment of union information service centres across the country, she said the centres had empowered people by ensuring their easy access to all the necessary information.
Later, the prime minister inaugurated the admission process of the university through mobile phone SMS.
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid, adviser to prime minister Syed Modasser Ali, chairman of University Grants Commission professor AK Azad Chowdhury and BSMRSTU vice-chancellor professor Khairul Alam Khan also spoke on the occasion.
Parliament member Nur-e-Alam Liton Chowdhury and press secretary to the prime minister Abul Kalam Azad were also present at the function, conducted by education secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury.
The vice-chancellor of the university said candidates could submit their applications to four faculties of BSMRSTU from Saturday till October 12 through SMS using Teletalk mobile phone.
Source : New Age
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