DHAKA: Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said the incumbent government is determined to improve the standard of higher education.

He made this assertion while addressing a workshop titled ‘Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) Achievements 2015’ at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in city Thursday morning.

The minister further said, ‘The government has already taken many steps to boost opportunities of higher education and enhance its standard’.



Stressing on the importance of research, Muhith said, ‘We should pay attention to invent something that will bring welfare for the humans’.

‘Alongside, we have to keep in mind about invention for agricultural development.’ he added.

Such inventions will make easy to attain Vission-2021 for the government, the finance minister opined.
  
In his speech, education minister Nurul Islam Nahid said, ‘Despite legging behind in quality education due to the financial limitations, our success is not negligible’.

‘We have achieved laudable successes in primary, secondary and vocational educations,’ he added.



The minister went on saying, ‘Enrollment rate in primary schools has increased. There is no discrimination in education. Boys and girls all are equally able to be educated’.

He also said, ‘At present, our education system is better than many Asian countries’.

World Bank adviser Kristine E Kim’s, Bangladesh University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman Professor Abdul Mannan, and education ministry additional secretary AS Mahmud, among others, were present at the workshop.

BDST: 1428 HRS, NOV 12, 2015
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