Public information

Welcome to the public information section, covering the ILO activities in Bangladesh. This page acts as a gateway to English and Bengali language information materials ranging from project publications to press releases, newsletters and brochures, speeches and photo gallery. You can also find contact details for the ILO’s communications staff based at the ILO-Dhaka office, also the project focal person, and the library services provide details of its publications.

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  1. News

    Second skills governance training workshop for skills development professionals held in Sylhet

    08 April 2015

    Capacity strengthening workshops for professionals in the skills development sector continued in Sylhet Engineering College from November 27-30, 2014. The goal of the second workshop was to develop monitoring tools to measure the progress of implementation of the National Skills Development Policy in each of the participating agencies.

  2. News

    ILO supports development of National Human Resources Development Fund

    08 April 2015

    Bangladesh faces a major challenge in terms of skill development. The rapid growth of the manufacturing sector has led to the creation of millions of new jobs, but also the creation of widening skills shortages in almost every industry sector. To address these shortages, the Government of Bangladesh is creating a National Human Resources Development Fund.

  3. News

    49 Government Polytechnics and 64 TSCs in Bangladesh to become Registered Training and Assessment Centres

    08 April 2015

    Mr Shahjahan Mian, Director-General, Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) and National Project Director of both the European Union and Canadian funded skills projects under DTE has directed all 49 Government Polytechnics and 64 Technical Schools & Colleges (TSCs) to become Registered Training Organizations and Assessment Centers.

  4. News

    Eight UN agencies in Bangladesh to work together on skills development

    08 April 2015

    A six person delegation from the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) visited the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Reform Project this week to discuss a joint approach to skills development by UN agencies.

  5. Article

    Amir starts work in first year of training through public private partnership

    08 April 2015

    Amir’s parents are farmers, living a small rural village in the Faridpur district of Bangladesh. Traditionally, this would mean that Amir would also become a farmer. He was the first person in his family who had completed secondary education though, and he wanted to do something different.

  6. News

    First public private partnership in technical education in Bangladesh

    08 April 2015

    Graphic Arts Institute and Shamustshuk Printers signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on May 3 in the presence of the Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr N I Khan. The MOU is a formal recognition of the first public private partnership to be initiated in Bangladesh’s technical education sector.

  7. News

    Sharing skills development expertise from Bangladesh with Myanmar

    08 April 2015

    Lessons learned and resources from ILO’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Reform in Bangladesh Project shared with counterparts in Myanmar.

  8. News

    TVET Project receives six month extension

    08 April 2015

    Bangladesh Planning Commission recently granted the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project a six month extension to extend its operations until December 2015.

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    ILO supports Bangladesh’s first international conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training

    08 April 2015

    A three-day international conference on Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for Sustainable Development was held from April 30 to May 2 in Dhaka, with representatives from 17 countries attending.

  10. News

    52 new positions created for Bangladesh Technical Education Board to Implement NTVQF

    08 April 2015

    The Bangladesh Technical Education Board (BTEB) will be able to recruit 52 new staff through that new recruitment rules published in the Government Gazette on May 28, 2015. The new staff are needed to help the BTEB implement the new National Technical and Vocational Qualifications Framework.