DHAKA: The Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said that the desired quality in education sector is still to achive in the country.

The minister made the remark while addressing a roundtable meeting at EWMGL Conference Room of East West Media Centre at Bashundhara Residential Area in city on Saturday.

English daily the Daily Sun organized the discussion tilted “Increase in pass rate: Rise or fall in quality of education?”

Nahid attended the meeting as chief guest with the Daily Sun editor Amir Hossain in the chair.

The minister commented that we could not gain the quality education yet.

He also said that students are doing well in higher studies. But they must apply their knowledge in their real life.

He further said that we will have to gain more knowledge and increase the quality of education to ensure the capability to go ahead in the present time world.

The minister also highlighted several progresses and achievements of the incumbment government.

Most of the schools are now having computers, around 10-lac primary teachers were trained for creative education, some 20,500 schools were introduced with Digital Classroom Content, he added.

He also said that another 3,000 schools are being under this process while 111 new books were launched, 17 mobile laboratories have been launched and 100 computer labs were established in city.

Moreover, several training programs for teachers and principals were taken recently.

The minister said that the talented students are not choosing teaching as profession.

Presenting statistics, he said that previously nine parcent of the children did not go to the school at all. Another 45 percent of the total students were dropped out from class five.

Now, we have increased the rate of school-going student upto 99 percent, he added.

Currently, the challenge is to keep them in school, he added.

He also mentioned that the government has distributed some 317,812,966 free books to the students, the minister said.

The vocational subjects will be added from class eight, he added.

Litterateur and also editor of country’s one of the leading Bangla dailies Kaler Kantho Imdadul Haq Milon, widely-circulated Bangla daily Bangladesh Pratidin editor Naeem Nizam, Professor Wahiduzzaman of Institute of Education and Research at Dhaka University and former Vice-Chancellor of Chittagong University Proffessor Abdul Mannan, among others, were present at the program.

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