Top 10 Reasons Why Technical Education is Important for Bangladesh

In a rapidly changing world, a university degree is often insufficient. Bangladesh needs skilled personnel to propel its industries forward and reduce unemployment. Technical education provides students with practical skills for employability, self-funding, and economic development. The following are the top ten reasons that portray the importance of technical education for Bangladesh.

1. Reduce Unemployment Among the Youth

While innumerable youngsters in Bangladesh finished school last year and still cannot find a job, many are left behind due to a lack of practical skills. Technical education imparts principles such as electrical work, computer technology, or mechanics that employers seek. This gets the young unemployed into the job market faster while building careers.

2. Encourages Self-Employment

The right skill enables students to earn a living through entrepreneurship. For instance, one trained in mobile servicing or graphic design can work from home or open a small shop. This helps clear the job market pressure and makes people financially independent.

3. Meeting Industry Requirements

Garments, construction, and ICT have their skilled technicians and workers. Technical education, therefore, entails grooming students to meet these industry-specific requirements and have a high chance of being hired immediately after completing their courses.

4. Improve National Economy

A skilled workforce tends to improve productivity and efficiency in industries. When citizens earn more and contribute more, it is directly associated with economic growth. Thus, technical education makes Bangladesh more competitive in the world market.

5. Opportunities Available For Rural Areas

Most of the technical and vocational training centers of today have been established in rural areas. Therefore, those students need not move to big cities to acquire valuable skills; this helps reduce migration, develop local economies, and provide jobs in the locality.

6. Provide Practical and Job-Ready Learning

Technical education is a "learning by doing" process at its best. It means students have to work with tools, machines, and software directly under supervision. Employing these practices makes students confident, able, and ready to step into work from the moment they graduate.

7. Open Up Doors for Overseas Employment Prospects

Electricians, welders, plumbers, and IT experts from Bangladesh are sought after by the countries of the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Technical education prepares our people for these job opportunities, enabling good salaries abroad and remittances coming in.

8. Better Standards of Living

Whatever he learns, if he becomes employed or sets up a venture, he increases income levels that help his family meet the cost of better health and education and live up to a dignified life. It breaks the vicious cycle of poverty.

9. Give Women Skills and Confidence

Increasingly, women make their way into trade areas such as healthcare, IT, tailoring, and electronics. Technical education provides self-reliance skills to women in most cases, allowing them to run home businesses or enter the labor force.

10. Backed by the Government and NGOs

The government of Bangladesh and many other NGOs fund technical education through the development project of TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) and SEIP (Skills for Employment Investment Program). From this, they will get trained and supported in their careers, and usually, free courses provide youth with opportunities to become successful.

Government and Private Top Technical Institutes of Bangladesh

Here are a few of the most famous institutions where students can receive quality technical education:

Government Institutes

• Dhaka Polytechnic Institute – Tejgaon, Dhaka

• Chattogram Polytechnic Institute – Nasirabad, Chattogram

• Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute – Sapura, Rajshahi

• TTC (Technical Training Centers) – Available in all divisions

• BIMT – Marine & Shipbuilding, Narayanganj

Private Institutes

• UCEP Bangladesh – Skill development for destitute youths

• Daffodil Technical Institute (DTI) – IT, design, and engineering

• Saic Institute – Diploma and short technical courses

• ITI (International Technical Institute) – CAD, Civil, and IT courses

• SEIP Training Centers – Government-supported free courses all across the country

Conclusion 

Generally, technical education will unleash the latent potential within the youth of Bangladesh and, among other things, prepare them for skilled employment to lessen unemployment and stimulate economic development. For any parent, student, or policymaker, investing in technical education is laying a stronger and smarter foundation for Bangladesh.

FAQ

1. Definition of technical education?

Technical education includes excellent training in skills and specific trades, including electrical work, computer technology, and mechanics.

2. What is the importance of learning technical?

Technical education in Bangladesh minimizes unemployment, contributes to economic development, and prepares students for jobs abroad or in local industries.

3. Why is vocational education important in Bangladesh?

Vocational education in Bangladesh imparts job-ready skills to the youth, promotes self-employment, and ensures that industries are supplied with skilled workers for national development and better living standards. 

4. Are there any free technical education programs in Bangladesh?

Yes, various government programs such as SEIP and TVET sponsor courses free of cost in many trades scattered throughout the country.

5. Which institutes offer technical education in Bangladesh?

Government institutes like Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, along with private ones like Daffodil Technical Institute, impart quality technical education.