Tag Archives: Skills development

LIMITED scope for technical education which fails to meet the requirement of the apparel industry in Bangladesh appears to be gravely concerning in that while several billion dollars in salaries and allowances paid to top-level foreign employees fly out of the country, the situation, if it continues for long, is likely to spell a disaster for the industry as it would grow further.

Mahmooda Sultana, born at Ishwardi in Rajshahi, made the headlines recently after she received the prestigious IRAD Innovator of the Year award from NASA.

Bangladesh should train its garment workers to improve their skills as 80 percent of them could lose jobs in the next 15 years due to automation, said fashion experts yesterday.

The Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved a new skill development scheme to provide demand driven and placement oriented skilling programmes to create jobs in the textile sector.

International Labour Organization (ILO) outgoing Bangladesh Country Director Srinivas B Reddy has said the organization will focus on social dialogue to promote freedom of association, collective bargaining, workplace safety, skills development for market needs and labor migration in Bangladesh for the next five years.

For attaining sustainable and high growth rate of an economy and improving the living standard of its people, the role of skill development cannot be over- emphasised. Skill development not only enhances and expands an individual's capacity of earning, the formation has the potential of transforming the nation's workforce into a more productive one and thereby contributing immensely towards the growth momentum of an economy.