Role of Education in Shaping Employees of Future

Introduction:

Famous politician Nelson Mandela quoted that, “Education is the most powerful weapon which
you can use to change the world.” (MUELLER, 2017) His saying about education indicates the
importance of education because it involves learning, acquisition of knowledge, skills, values,
beliefs, and habits. The process of education involves listening, hearing, training, and stories,
lessons conducted by teachers, entrepreneurs or different spokespersons.

Background:

Education can help in shaping employees because uneducated employees do not know the
knowledge of using and instructing the advanced technologies in a factory. They lack skills to
perform task faster and lack of productivity. Not only this but also they have poor
communication skills and higher rate of health related issues due to self negligence. In many
countries the employees rights also gets deprived due to lack of their knowledge and valuation of
their own skills and knowledge. The uneducated employees are often offered poor salary, wages
and poor accommodation which turns into higher rate of work re4lated dissatisfaction. These
employees often produce bad quality products which spreads bad word of mouth against the
company.

Importance of education in shaping employees of future:

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) revealed in a statistical data that, 42 million people which
are about 26% of the population are still illiterate in Bangladesh. The National Education Policy
2010 was taken by the government to eliminate illiteracy rate from Bangladesh. Primary
Education Ministry is implementing a Tk 38,000 crore project under the Primary Education
Development Program (PEDP 4) to increase the literacy rate. (Anik, 2019)

 Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100: Prof Dr Shamsul Alam the Senior Secretary of Ministry of
Planning announced that, government will spend $37billion by 2031 to ensure food and water
security and fight disasters to succeed the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100. Bangladesh Delta
Plan 2100 will be done by a short-term plan by 2030, a mid-term plan by 2050, and a long-
term plan by 2100. (Dhaka Tribune, 2018) Under this project the annual growth of
Bangladesh’s economy will be 1.5 percentage points by 2030. The other motives of the
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 is to effective reduction of vulnerability to natural disasters and
build resilience to climate change and other delta challenges through robust, adaptive and
integrated strategies, and equitable water governance. (Alam, 2019)

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 Image: Literacy rate of Bangladesh

 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030: Bangladesh has obtained the position of
Developing Country by The UN Committee for Development Policy (CPD). The recent
reducing infant mortality rate, decreasing the prevalence of underweight children, 100
percent enrollment in primary schools; and attained gender parity with more girls than boys
in primary and secondary schools helped them to obtain the position. (Social watch) The
economic risk index of Bangladesh stood at 25.1 points, in the human development index
63.8 points.
 Gross domestic product and Gross National Income: According to the World Bank the
Bangladesh’s Gross domestic product is 249.7 billion USD and GNI per capita is 4,040 PPP
dollars. According to the source of The Daily Star Bangladesh's per capita gross national
income (GNI) jumped more than 9 percent to $1,909. (The Daily Star, 2019)
 Greater automation and the use of robotics in industry in Bangladesh: Jim Yong Kim
The President of World Bank revealed that about two thirds of jobs in the developing world
may be lost due to automation. (Uddin, 2018) Many factories use robots to increase
productivity and competitiveness. Industrial robot imports rose to 97 units in fiscal 2018-19
from 73. (Parvez, 2019)
In the garments factories of Bangladesh more than 4 million workers are employed. Mostly
women are the workers in ready-made garment (RMG) factories. Automation can be built for
better working conditions of the employees. Without proper education and technical skills
these automation cannot be implanted.
 Upgrading technical and vocational education and training (TVET):
It helps to train and skill the people for employments that are advanced and technological in
nature. Many large and small NGOs offer skills training through short or long term courses.

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 Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) under the Ministry of Education,Bureau of
Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) under the Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare
and Overseas Employment, Department of Women Affairs under the Ministry of Women and
Children Affairs and Department of Youth Development (DYD) under the Ministry of Youth
and Sports provide these trainings. (Islam)
 Outsourcing: Due to increasing unemployment in Bangladesh many firms will stop hiring in
the permanent posts and look for outsourcing that might reduce their operating cost. For that
they will seek online freelancers. Already many freelancers are performing very well on
outsourcing jobs and are hired by famous national and international firms.

Literature review:

 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is

created by The United Nations’ 17 and it aims to create an environment that can improve the
living standards of people with better education, healthy environment and advanced
technologies. Some of their goals are: No Poverty, providing Quality Education, Clean Water
and Sanitation, etc.
 Gross National Income: The GNI per capita is highly associated with the quality of life of
citizens.
 Gross domestic product: The whole value of the product and services produced in a
country.
 Outsourcing: To hire employment from outside the organization rather than permanent
recruitments to reduce operating costs of the company.
 Automation: Using robots and technological support to accelerate production and
productivity instead of human labor.

Relevance to theoretical framework and outcome:

 ICT division’s Free ID to the freelancers: A digital card will be provided by ICT division
and Bangladesh Freelancer Development Society to the country’s freelancers and it will be
referred as a ‘Free ID’. BFDS will provide the technical support to the whole process. (The
Daily Star, 2019) The positive outcome of this free ids will provide authentic freelances more
opportunities of work.
 Free laptops to the freelancers: An agreement with Walton will facilitate freelancers to get
Walton laptop and other facilities. The whole initiative is formulated by BFDS. The laptops
given to the freelancers will help them to work from home rather than seek job in the
competitive marketplace and remove unemployment from the society.
 Smart school: The government has introduced smart school and made digital attendance
system to increase school attendance. Multimedia system and internet will also be installed in
the schools as a part of this initiative. (Bangladesh’s first ‘smart school’ begins its journey,
2018) The smart schools will ensure more attendance, more attentive teachers and will spare

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 nho scope for corruption. Because CCTV surveillance in the institutes will be reported to the
higher authorities and action will be taken immediately.
 Smart Metering solutions for electricity, water and gas utilities: To empower societies,
improve lives and digitalize businesses through IoT a “Smart Home”, Industrial IoT solutions
for factories and Smart Metering solutions for electricity, water and gas utilities, solution
with Datasoft Bangladesh Limited, SEEMO Smart Security” solution with Bangla-Trac
Communications Limited. (Rahman, 2019) Paying necessary bills become easier for the
employees. They will be able to pay their necessary bills via mobile or online and it will save
their time and hassles.
 E agricultural marketing: E-agricultural marketing has been introduced to the farmers.
Mobile app has been introduced to buy or sell the agricultural product. By the use of
technology they gain greater control over their production and product. (Department of
Agricultural Marketing)

Learning outcome of the assignment:

Before doing the assignment I knew very little about freelancing procedures for Bangladeshi
freelancers. After preparing the assignment I know about the facilities they can get from the
Government. I learned the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, Outsourcing Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) in details. Also I learned the current Gross National Income, Gross domestic
product of Bangladesh. The new installation of digital attendance in primary schools was not
known by me. Apart from that an app developed for marketing agricultural products has also
amazed me.

Conclusion:

Education helps people to learn about moral values, culture, honesty, politeness, societal norms
and other components. It also enlightens a person theoretical knowledge regarding different
subjects such as science, sociology, law, anthropology, environment, business, mathematics,
languages and so on. Usually education is provided in schools, colleges, universities and other
institutions. (Biyani Colleges) Without education there is no light. The most uncivilized nations
and countries are less educated and it has been found by research. Without education the people
remains illiterate and there is war, terrorism, inefficient governments, corruption and the threat of
poverty. (Krishnamurti Foundation Trust) Many developed and developing nations became
successful because of educated employees who helped them to build better future.

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