British Council celebrates World Sight Day 2016
The British Council in partnership with Standard Chartered bank has celebrated World Sight Day 2016 recently at British Council, Fuller Road office.
World Sight Day is a special annual day of awareness that is celebrated around the world each year to focus on blindness and vision impairment. To celebrate this day British Council had arranged a Young Learners’ Art Competition with this year’s Theme “Stronger Together”. Around 2500 kids (aged between 5 -14) from all over Bangladesh took part in the art
Information Olympiad at Sonargaon Sinha School
To mark the International Information Day’ 2016, the Regional Reporting Society (the RRS) has organized an Information Olympiad at Sinha Higher Secondary School of Sonargaon Upazilla in Nrayanganj recently.
Chief Information Commissioner of Bangladesh Prof Dr Md. Golam Rahman was the chief guest at the certificate distribution ceremony held on last Thursday. Principal of the College Md. Abdur Rahman presided over the function while Central Coordinator of Sujan, Dilip Kumar
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Social enterprise impact across Bangladesh
The British Council launched two new survey reports titled ‘The State of Social Enterprise in Bangladesh’ and ‘Social Enterprise Policy Landscape in Bangladesh’ today at Hotel Ascott Palace Ltd. in the Baridhara region of the Capital. Produced by the British Council, the study on Bangladesh was led by Overseas Development Institute (www.odi.org) with support from BetterStories, UnLtd and Social Enterprises UK.
The first report, ‘The State of Social Enterprise in Bangladesh’, attempts for the first time to understand the scale of social enterprise activity in Bangladesh as well as the sectors in which social enterprises are focused and the beneficiaries that they support.
It helps to fill our knowledge gap by providing quantitative information about the operations,
10 Minute School to Chittagong
Robi has recently organized sessions on the free online educational platform- “10 Minute School” in three of the leading universities in Chittagong. Students of the Chittagong University, East Delta University and Port City University were treated with a unique way of approaching education through this innovative online education platform.
Interesting quizzes, tests and engaging question & answer segment were the highlights of the sessions. After a round of sessions at various college and universities in Dhaka, the 10 Minute School has now moved to the port city. The sessions are aimed at promoting this digital ![]()
RU Moot Court Society holds workshop
On Saturday, a workshop was held at Rajshahi University Moot Court society (RUMCS) on ‘’Workshop on Mooting: Case Analysis, Memorial Writing and Advocacy’’ for developing practical knowledge and trail advocacy of Students.
Today at 3:30pm the workshop was staged on 139, room of RU Law department title on ‘’Lawyers are the architect of society’’ arranged by RUMCS.
Abu Naser Mohammad Wahid dean of RU Law faculty and chairman of law dept spoke on the workshop. Md Sadiqul Islam Sagor assistant professor and president of RUMCS presented thr...
Today at 3:30pm the workshop was staged on 139, room of RU Law department title on ‘’Lawyers are the architect of society’’ arranged by RUMCS.
Abu Naser Mohammad Wahid dean of RU Law faculty and chairman of law dept spoke on the workshop. Md Sadiqul Islam Sagor assistant professor and president of RUMCS presented thr...
MetLife supports actuarial science education in BD
To meet the increasing demand of actuary professionals, MetLife has been working to encourage potential students to actuarial science education. MetLife has taken up the initiative of “Actuarial Study Programme” to meet the demand of skilled manpower in the insurance sector as part of its social responsibility. Under this program, in January 2015, MetLife selected six students from the Department of Mathematics, University of Dhaka for Actuarial Science Education scholarship.
Selected students for the “Actuarial...
Selected students for the “Actuarial...
