Dhaka, Sept. 10 -- President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said the country's education system must be revamped, taking into consideration its literature, heritage, culture, employment needs and overall requirements.

He made the remarks when a delegation of the Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh (APUB) paid a courtesy call on him at Bangabhaban.

The President said the fragile education system inherited from the previous regime needs to be restructured.

He stressed the need to bring different streams of education under a coordinated and integrated system. "Indiscriminate approval of substandard educational institutions during the previous fascist regime resulted in the creation of an unskilled workforce," he sai...