Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said that public universities of the country were unwilling to adopt virtual or online classes while the government tried to introduce it during Covid-19 pandemic.
“Let me share a regretful matter. Our public universities were a little bit slow for using digital system in education during the pandemic period. They were far behind (comparing to the private universities),” she said.
The prime minister said this while attending the inaugural program of Digital Bangladesh Day 2022 and distributing prizes among the winners of Online Quiz Competition 2022.
The ICT Division organized the program at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) with the theme ‘Advanced technology Inclusive Development'.
Hasina said that at that time public universities were adamant against going for virtual or online classes.
While the private universities were quick to shift to online, the public universities lagged behind, she said. Even the Dhaka University was not quick in making the change, she added.
She said that after repeated requests public universities of the country came to the path of virtual classes.
“That was the reality. When a system is beneficial to us why we will not adopt that?” she questioned.
The prime minister said that if there was no Digital Bangladesh, imagine what would have happened during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Everything would come to a standstill,” she said.