Category: Miscellaneous

CEO of ACER meets DU VC

Amit Kaushik, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) paid a courtesy call on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman on Monday (13th November) at his office of the university, said a DU press release here. During the meeting they stressed the need for..

RUET launches computer networking course

The Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) has launched an advance level training course on computer networking in order to make its teachers, officers and employees skilled on the modern communication technology. RUET Vice chancellor Prof Rafiqul Alam Beg said this while addressing the closing and certificate-giving ceremony of..

4th IU convocation on January 7

THE fourth convocation of Islamic University is scheduled to be held on the campus in Kushtia on January 7, 2018. President Abdul Hamid, also the chancellor of the university, will preside over the convocation, university registrar office sources said on Sunday. The university will confer certificates on around 38,000 graduate..

Tawfiq-e-Elahi urges students to be innovative, creative

Prime Minister’s Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Affairs Adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury urged all students of the country on 7th November to be more creative and innovative in their practical life. ‘Our students should be more creative and innovative as it will help them to flourish their talent and bring..

Chinese university to initiate Power Engineering degree in Bangladesh

A Chinese University is going to initiate a 4- year undergraduate Power Engineering course at Stamford University here for the first time in the country to create international standard engineers for the fast growing power sector of Bangladesh. Bangladesh China Institute of Technology (BCIT) with collaboration of Lanzhou Jiaotong..

Workshop on Curriculum Development held at DU

A daylong workshop on “Curriculum Development” was held at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban in Dhaka University (DU) campus on Monday (6th November). Organised by the Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC-DU) while DU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman inaugurated it as the chief guest, said a DU release..

DU confers reception to 32 retired professors

Dhaka University (DU) conferred reception to 32 retired professors on Saturday (4th November) with a view to honouring the contribution of the teachers to academia of the public university. DU Teachers’ Association (DUTA) organised the programme at Professor Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury auditorium on the campus, said a press release here..

Mostafizur for quality primary education

Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman today laid emphasis on ensuring the quality of primary education to ensure the standard of higher education. “Teachers have to play a vital role in improving quality of education as the teachers’ role is mostly important to attain the expected target of education,..

Accounting teacher’s conference at ICMAB

A conference on “Recent developments in the Field of Management Accounting and Corporate Reporting” is going on at ICMAB Bhaban in Dhaka. The conference is started 0n Friday (27th October) in the morning with a wellcome address by Mohammad Salim FCMA, vice president of ICMAB. Shubhashish Bose, Secretary of Ministry..

Bangladeshi education officer sent back from Thailand on harassment charge

An upazila secondary education officer (USEO) has been sent back to Bangladesh at least three days ahead of a 10-day training programme at a university in Thailand on charge of harassing a female official of the university. Bhola sadar upazila secondary education officer, M Ziad Hasan, was a member of..

UK leads international support for Rohingya crisis at landmark conference

23 Oct 2017 The UK has led the way in providing support for the Rohingya crisis – the world’s fastest growing humanitarian catastrophe – by committing a further £12 million. The UK has increased its own support for innocent families who have been forced to flee relentless violence in Burma..

Certificate-giving ceremony held at British Council

Oxford International Education Group in collaboration with the British Council today organised a certificate-giving ceremony for the students of Oxford International School and DPS STS School, who participated in the two-week ‘Summer School and Leadership Programme’ in the UK recently. A total of 29 students and four staffs from both..

‘Choose kindness,’ Melania Trump tells schoolkids

Donald Trump’s detractors may label him one of the world’s most powerful bullies, but that did not discourage America’s first lady from championing the fight against bullying at a Detroit area school on Monday. Melania Trump has publicly embraced the anti-bullying cause at the risk of drawing unfavorable parallels with..

53.27% of BD youth are addicted to drugs!

“Yaba comes from Myanmar and is hidden in imports of dry fish or stashed inside vehicles.” Image via Author The rehab rooms were bare and cell-like and beneath each sprung mattress was a pink bedpan. People don’t enter Bangladeshi rehabs expecting comfort. Past barred windows with no glass, the hallway led..

King Abdullah Foundation supports education of over 76,000 Rohingya children

RIYADH — The King Abdullah Foundation has launched an initiative to support the education of more than 76,000 Rohingya refugee children, in cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Islamic Development Bank Group (IDB). This initiative will support much needed education of Rohingya refugees who fled their..

NGOs plays vital role to flourish education in BD : Assam Tribune

DHAKA, Oct 23 – Non-government organisations (NGOs), together with the international donor agencies, have been playing a vital role in the development of Bangladesh. The officials here maintain that NGOs are the development partners of the government. On the other hand, the NGOs maintain that the government is actively participating..

Jewish victims of Holocaust would know the Rohingya misery : Dr Zarni

Drafting the Oslo Communique calling for the end to Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide, Voksanaasen, Oslo, 27 May 2015 “Hello, my name is Zarni,” he began, “and I am a human rights campaigner from Burma. I am making this personal appeal to European citizens. You have made the pledge ‘never again’..

Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis goes online for first time

Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, ‘Properties of expanding universes’, has been made freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world after being made accessible via the University of Cambridge’s Open Access repository, Apollo. Reports https://phys.org The 1966 doctoral thesis by the world’s most recognisable scientist is the most requested item in Apollo with..

President of King Abdulaziz University Receives Ambassador Moshi

18 October 2017 Dr. Abdurrahman bin Obaid Al-Youbi, President of King Abdulaziz University (KAU), received here today Bangladeshi ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Golam Moshi. During the meeting, they discussed ways of enhancing cooperation in the fields of education between KAU and the Bangladeshi universities. ..