Bangladesh needs more innovative, skilled, educated and technologically sound entrepreneurs and workforce for rapid development in business and industrial sector,
education minister Nurul Islam Nahid said on Saturday.
At a discussion meeting on ‘Bachelor of Entrepreneurship Development and BBA in Business Leadership’ organised by Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry at its auditorium, Nahid urged the private sector people to come forward in developing skilled manpower and innovative entrepreneurs.
He said that many foreigners were working at the management level in the readymade garment sector and taking huge amount of money from the country because of a shortage of skilled workforce in the country.
‘The private sector will have to take responsibility to develop skilled workforce and future entrepreneurs for business as the sector itself will be benefited most if they can prepare their future leaders,’ he said.
He called upon entrepreneurs to invest more in education sector to develop quality of education and urged private educational institutions to concentrate more on quality of education instead of merely on profit-making.
DCCI president Sabur Khan stressed establishment of a curriculum in the higher education which will create new entrepreneurs.
He said that DCCI Business Institute initiated ‘Bachelor of Entrepreneurship Development and BBA in Business Leadership’ degrees.
The DBI has also written to some public and private universities to introduce the same degrees to develop educated and skilled entrepreneurs, he said adding that DBI would help to develop the course outline.
University Grant Commission member Atful Hye Shibli, Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute chief executive officer Mozibur Rahman, DCCI former presidents MH Rahman and Rashed Maksud Khan, and DBI consultant Syed Maruf Reza spoke, among others, at the meeting.
-With New Age input
