Bangladesh, June 7 -- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today called for developing a skill and technology-based practical and job-oriented education system in the country instead of certificate-based education.

"In this era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there is no alternative to modernising and updating the traditional education curriculum to face the challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation," he said.

Tarique Rahman, also ruling BNP chairman, said this while addressing the inaugural session of a training programme on job-oriented and technical education for teachers at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Center in the capital.

National University (NU) organised the training programme with the theme 'We wil...