While Bangladesh has expanded access to education, it failed to translate that progress into learning, skills development, employment and productivity, they observed. From primary school to university, the biggest problem in our education system is that we do not have qualified teachers. He described the path to economic output as a chain: schooling must produce learning, learning must lead to skills, skills to employment, and employment to higher productivity. National Professor Mahbub Ullah, who chaired the event, said a sound education system required a strong domestic economy capable of employing skilled graduates. Susan Vize, head of office and Unesco representative to Bangladesh, called for a unified strategy connecting schools, universities, technical education and lifelong learning.