STEM education accelerate the vision-2041 in Bangladesh
STEM is the acronym for the four subjects which includes Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. One of the most talked about forms of education around the world today is STEM education.
Developed countries feel that STEM education is essential to sustain their country’s economic progress in the future.
Specialists believe that the countries that focused on STEM education will move forward in the future.
The main goal of STEM Education is to build a well-educated manpower for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the 21st Century. STEM education has multiplied the creativity of the human mind.
The core function of STEM education is to develop teamwork, improved communication, the ability to find something, the ability to analyze something, to solve any problems, and above all to enrich digital knowledge.
Science, technology, engineering, and math are uniquely suited to the success of STEM students. STEM education is even more important to make the country economically self-sufficient.
Students who receive quality STEM education become the next generation of innovators. In the STEM learning process, students learn how to manage their time and how to divide large projects into smaller steps. It’s a method that will help them improve throughout their lives.
According to a report by the US Department of Commerce, job opportunities are growing at a rate of 18 percent per year for those educated in STEM education.
And for other degree holders, employment is growing at a rate of about 10 percent. Many questions, curiosities and inquiries in people’s minds started from the middle period.
Not only western countries but also countries like India and China are emphasizing STEM in their education system.
Especially at secondary and higher secondary level so that students can choose the right path in their preferred third education. In the present age, without science, mathematics and engineering, civilization is useless. Science has an impact on every level of life. The evolution of technology in human civilization develops a nation.
STEM education has reduced the tendency to memorize textbooks in the traditional way. The tendency to memorize textbooks can still be noticed in the rural areas of Bangladesh.
If STEM education is made compulsory, its impact will be greatly reduced. For example, the subject of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been made compulsory for students in all departments of our country.
As a result, today’s students are able to enjoy the benefits of modern education from the old traditional education system. STEM education helps students to become active. Stem solves creative problems.
STEM increases students’ interest in learning something new in practice. STEM education enhances communication skills with one another. Gives students confidence and self-esteem and controls excessive emotions. It enhances logical thinking, creativity and imagination.
The standard of education in Bangladesh has become more modern than before. Among these are innovation programs, new learning technologies, media education programs, digital content preparation and classroom teaching through multimedia. It has increased the interest of secondary and higher secondary students in Bangladesh to study STEM.
A study by the Ministry of Education found that the number of students in science groups for both SSC and HSC levels in Bangladesh was declining year after year.
The reason was the fear of science and mathematics among the students. The government has created an environment to ensure the participation of Bangladeshi students in the International Mathematical Olympiad to make mathematics more attractive to students.
Meritorious students are taking part in the Maths Olympiad and putting their signature of achievement. In this context, students are becoming more and more motivated towards mathematics education to get good grades in mathematics.
In this way, the fear of the students of Bangladesh towards mathematics has come down a lot. New innovative education systems based on science and technology are helping students to develop their thinking.
STEM education has become very popular among the students of public and private universities in Bangladesh.
In Bangladesh, 439 Polytechnic Institutes and 218 Technical Schools and Colleges provide hands-on STEM education. Besides, Students from Bangladesh University of Engineering (BUET), Rajshahi University of Engineering (RUET), Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Noakhali University of Science and Technology, Barisal University of Science and Technology, Pabna University of Science and Technology, Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Central University of Science and Technology (Dhaka), Bangladesh Army International University Technology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University, Gopalganj, Jessore University of Science and Technology, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib University of Science and Technology, CCN University of Science and Technology Kotbari, Comilla, Maulana Bhasani University of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology (USTC), Chittagong, Patuakhali University of Science and Technology, Institute of Science Trade and Technology (ISTT), University of Information Technology and Sciences who have been showing their special achievements in the field of science and technology.
Bangladesh Stem Foundation invites research concepts and projects to students of public and private universities across the country in 2020. In this call, 236 projects were submitted out of more than 100 teams. The National Stem Competition was based on 13 of the 17 goals in 2030. Students present concept papers and projects in groups on hunger, poverty, sewerage, lack of clean water, climate problem solving, industrialization, planned urbanization, economic development, etc.
To attract STEM students, First Global Challenge, a US-based organization, has been organizing exciting robotics competitions in the United States since 2017. Students from different countries of the world take part in this competition. Bangladesh has been participating in this competition since 2017. In 2019, Bangladesh was able to win the seventh place in the Robotics Olympics.
This time the competition titled First Global Challenge was held on the online platform due to the extreme coronavirus. This time 173 countries including Bangladesh participated in the world’s largest robotics competition with the participation of students.
The good news is that, the Bangladeshi athletes have become the champions of the International Games, known as the Olympics of Robotics, with great skill, beating the students of all the reputed institutions of 173 countries. Bangladesh’s unprecedented success in th world-famous Robotics Olympics has raised the profile of Bangladeshi students. Well done! Bangladesh.
Stem education is being considered as a priority in Bangladesh to educate the students of Bangladesh in modern technical education.
As a result, today’s students are becoming more proficient in science and mathematics education than ever before. By acquiring STEM edcation, students can become inventors and innovators. By teaching STEM and technology education, students will be established as the leading providers of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).
Undoubtedly, STEM education will make the vision announced by Hon’ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina more dynamic to make it a developed Bangladesh in 2041.
