Dhaka, April 7 -- Academics in universities in Bangladesh may question why institutions will bear the responsibility of imparting generic (employable) skills into their engineering students.

The prevailing belief suggests that graduates can sufficiently acquire requisite skills through subsequent training provided by their employers, as has been the norm.

Academics argue that they have long focused on transmitting subject-specific engineering knowledge to students, and their students have excelled both domestically and internationally.

Yet, in the contemporary landscape, the acquisition of employable skills holds a paramount significance within the university tenure itself.

This is due to the unprecedented pace of technological advanc...