Category: Foreign studies

Bangladeshi student asked to leave India after posting anti-CAA protest photos

A Bangladeshi student at Visva-Bharati has been asked to leave India for participating in "anti-government activities" after she posted a few photographs -- on Facebook -- of protests against the citizenship law at the university, reports The Telegraph, India.

Thousands join India protests

Thousands protested in rival demonstrations in India Friday as tensions deepen over a citizenship law seen as anti-Muslim, with authorities deploying huge numbers of riot police in the country.

Bangladeshi origin Anisha Faruk elected Oxford University SU president

Bangladeshi-origin student and former co-chair of the Oxford University Labour Club, has been elected president of the Oxford University Student Union. She clinched the victory in a tough election for President of the Oxford SU. The results were announced at an event at the Weston L

In Pakistan public education suffocates under surging population

school in northwest Pakistan students squeeze into makeshift classrooms where plastic tarps serve as walls and electricity is sparse, as a surging population overstretches the country’s fragile education system. Sandwiched behind desks like sardines, students repeat words learned in Pashto and Engl

Why African students are ditching the US for China

The surge in the number of African students in China is remarkable. In less than 15 years the African student body has grown 26-fold - from just under 2,000 in 2003 to almost 50,000 in 2015. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, the US and UK host around 40,000 African students a year.

After shooting, Florida to station police officer at every school

A police officer will be stationed at every public school in Florida, the state’s governor announced Friday as part of a plan to improve security following last week’s deadly high school shooting. President Donald Trump repeated his call, meanwhile, for arming some of America’s teachers and claimed the controversial proposal..

Trump says arming teachers could help prevent school massacres

US president Donald Trump said on Wednesday that arming teachers could help prevent massacres like last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school, voicing support for an idea backed by the National Rifle Association gun rights group. Trump made the comment during an emotional hour-long White House meeting with..

17 dead in Florida high school shooting

Police said a former student opened fire at a Florida high school on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending scores of students fleeing into the streets in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Frantic parents rushed to Marjory..

Harvard’s new president tasked with fending off doubt on higher education

The U.S. university of Harvard on Sunday named Lawrence Bacow its next president, saying he will lead the school to counter doubts and challenges against higher education. William Lee, chairman of the presidential search committee, said Bacow was picked “when the singular value of higher education and university research has..

In Syria, student dreams shattered by war

They once dreamt of becoming engineers, teachers or other professionals, but for tens of thousands of Syrian students those hopes were cut short by the war in their homeland. While some have managed to rebuild their lives overseas and others remain stranded in refugee camps, there are those who transformed..

Long-term truants make nervy school return in Iraq’s Mosul

After three years of forced truancy due to the Islamic State group’s seizure of the Iraqi city of Mosul, teenager Ali Salem waited nervously outside school to sit an English exam. Before heading out bright and early from a camp for the displaced in Hajj Ali, 60 kilometres (35 miles)..

25 people, mostly students, killed in Malaysia school fire

Twenty-five people, most of them students, were killed Thursday when a blaze tore through a Malaysian religious school, in what officials said was one of the country’s worst fire disasters for years. The blaze broke out before dawn in the two-storey building, Tahfiz Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah, located in the centre..

Gulshan Attack: Tahmid acquitted

Tahmid Hasib Khan, who was arrested for “instigating” the Gulshan café attackers and also charged with hiding information from police, is now free. A Dhaka court yesterday (16th April) acquitted Tahmid, on bail, of a charge filed for not giving information to police about the terrorist attack on Gulshan Holey..

Two killed in US school shooting

A man walked into a school in southern California Monday (10 April) and shot dead his estranged wife in front of her students, killing an eight-year-old boy in the crossfire before turning his gun on himself. Police said local resident Cedric Anderson had checked into the office as a visitor..

IIT plans to enroll students from Bangladesh

Students from Bangladesh can now look forward to securing admission in Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), one of the most prestigious and sought-after tech institutions in the world. The Institutes are planning to hold entrance tests abroad for the first time, including in SAARC countries for the upcoming year. However,..

How Brexit could affect you

Lately, my newsfeed has been flooded with the term “Brexit”. Upon first glance, it sounds like the name of Subway’s latest sandwich – catchy names don’t necessarily promise great flavour, mind you. Years of social media prowess has taught me better than to fall for the lure of hashtags..

Kochi University to introduce nursing course In Bangladesh

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) would implement a project for improvement of nursing practicum in Bangladesh with the support of Kochi University of Japan. President of Kochi University of Japan Hiroko Minami during a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her Tejgaon office here on April 13 discussed..

Higher Study in Russia

Russia is one of the world’s largest countries, a traditional superpower and a centre of education for most of Eastern Europe. Its membership of the European Higher Education Area means that many Russian universities are now offering education in a more Westernized style, but studying an undergraduate degree in Russia..

Opportunities for Bangladeshi students for higher studies in Ireland

Citizens of Bangladesh who wish to pursue a course of study in Ireland must apply for a visa to enter Ireland before they travel. Since January 2011 there are changes to the immigration system for non-EEA students. If you are a Bangladeshi national coming to study in Ireland you must be..