Desk Report
Publish: 23 Feb 2022, 11:54 pm
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The changes in the
labour market brought by Covid-19 epidemic and the 4IR will require new skills
in the world job market. Therefore, Bangladesh seeks Canada's assistance in
improving the quality of technical education to deal with the new requirement
of skills.
The
businessmen came up with this call at the virtual meeting of the Canada-Bangladesh
Joint Working Group on strengthening commercial relations held on Tuesday, said
a press release.
Member
of the working group and director of the FBCCI Syed Almas Kabir presented a
report on information technology and education at the meeting.
According
to a2i, the report says, in Bangladesh, the 4IR will make 50percent of the job
vulnerable by 2030.
According
to the data presented at the meeting, in Bangladesh, 91.40 percent of the
labour force working in various sectors has no training. By 2025, 7.2 million
people will need sector-based training which will reach 9.75 million by 2030,
and more than 29 million by 2050.
Especially
the skills in Cyber Security, Sensors and Machine Intelligence Algorithm, Big
Data and Analytics, Block Chain-Distributed Ledger Technology, Simulation, Visualization
and Digital Twin, Industrial Internet of Things,
Autonomous
robots, neural networking and machine learning, 3D printing, Cloud Edge
Computing, Human-Machine Cooperation, Virtual augmented reality will appear to
be necessary, the report says.
Syed
Almas Kabir said, If Canadian technical education institutes set up campuses in
Bangladesh or invest in joint ventures with local institutes in these sectors,
it will become mutually beneficial for both the countries.
While
speaking, FBCCI Director and the president of MCCI Dhaka Saiful Islam
recommended to undertake exchange activities between Bangladesh and Canadian
training institutes.
BPGMEA
President Shamim Ahmed urged the Canadian Counterpart to establish linkages
between BPGMEA training institute and the same kind in Canada.
The
High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Canada Dr Khalil Rahman recommended to
include the representatives from Business Council of Canada (BCC) and Manitoba
Chamber of Commerce in the working group.
President
of Cancham Bangladesh Masud Rahman, Editor of Travel Magazine "Vromon"
and Adjunct Faculty of Daffodil University Abu Sufian, and the Secretary
General of FBCCI Mohammad Mahfuzul Hoque were also present at the meeting.
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