DHAKA, Mar 10, 2024 (BSS) – Speakers at a discussion stressed the need for developing market-oriented curriculum, soft skills for public university students as well as producing skilled graduates to meet the challenges of the AI-driven financial services sectors, especially in banking.

 “Academia must enhance skilled graduates capable enough to face the challenges of the AI-driven financial services sectors, especially in banking along with developing market-oriented curriculum and development of soft skills for public university students”, said speakers.

 “The nation needs smart bankers to build a smart Bangladesh and thus, bankers with specialized banking knowledge need to be recruited”, they told a discussion on ‘Upgrading Banking-Insurance Curriculum: Responding to the Need of the Industry’ held on Saturday at Professor Dr. Abdullah Farouk Multipurpose Hall of Business studies faculty of Dhaka University.

The speakers also called upon the academia to motivate freshers through courses and successful cases in Entrepreneurship Development along with emphasizing on producing skilled human resources to protect the safety and sustainability of the banking industry.

Secretary of Financial Institutions Division Sheikh Mohammad Salim Ullah addressed as chief guest in the discussion which was also addressed by a handful of leading Managing Directors and CEOs from different commercial banks and NBFIs and Senior Executives from the Central Bank as discussants.
The nation needs smart bankers to build a smart Bangladesh, thus recruiting bankers with specialized banking knowledge, said Sheikh Mohammad Salim Ullah, requesting the teachers to motivate freshers through courses and successful cases in Entrepreneurship Development.

  Joint secretary, FID Md. Jahid Hossain and Kamrul Hoque Maruf both uttered the need of market-oriented curriculum and development of soft skills for public university students.

Former executive director of Bangladesh Bank Dr. Abul Kalam Azad, praised the existing course curriculum offered by the Department after suggesting a few courses’ renaming while focusing on soft skill development, Managing Director (Current Charge) of Meghna Bank Kimiwa Sadat pointed that students should be sent for field visit where the Department can initiate an exchange program with banks. 

HSBC Bangladesh CEO Md Mahbub ur Rahman, Community Bank MD and CEO Mashihul Huq Chowdhury, Shimanta Bank MD and CEO Rafiqul Islam, IDLC Finance CEO and MD M Jamal Uddin, MD and CEO of NCC Bank M. Shamsul Arefin, MD of Bangladesh Krishi Bank Md. Shawkat Ali Khan and Bangladesh Bank Executive Director Dr. Md Ezazul Islam also addressed the discussion.