European Union (EU)’s future development partnership with Bangladesh will largely be focused on the development of skills and education among the youth, said EU Ambassador in Bangladesh, William Hanna.
Hanna was addressing the Certificate Presentation Ceremony to the apprentices trained under the TVET project, organised by the project’s lead agency International Labour Organisation (ILO) at a city hotel on Saturday.
Referring to the success of the EU-assisted Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) project in the country, he said the TVET was a very good example where the government, different organisations from the private sector and international development partners worked together to achieve good results...
A group of professors and researchers from Mexico, Poland and India called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. AAMS Arefin Siddique on Thursday at the latter’s office.
The researchers and professors present were Prof Dr Ana Teresa Gutierrez del Cid, Dr Graciela Perez Gavilan Rojas, Dr Rosario Arroyo Velasco and Dr Erika Hinsen from Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico; Prof Dr Sivanandan Sivakumar from Indian Law Institute (Deemed University), Dr Lisa P Lukose from University School of Law and Legal Studies (USLLS), India and Tomasz Lachowski, a PhD candidate from University of Lodz, Poland.
American International University – Bangladesh (AIUB) organized the annual AIUB Job Fair 2013 on Saturday on the AIUB Campus -1 & 5, Banani in the city.
Vice Chancellor of AIUB Dr CARMEN Z Lamagna inaugurated the fair at 10:00 AM which continued up-to 4:00PM.
The inauguration ceremony was also attended by AIUB Founder and Vice President (Student Affairs) Nadia Anwar Founder.
Nearly 60 renowned national and multinational companies including banks, IT solutions, mobile operators, net...
About a year back the Economist had an editorial piece titled “Out of the basket” and subtitled “Lessons from the achievements – yes, really, achievements – of Bangladesh.” The more in-depth piece that followed appeared somewhat bemused at how a country once labeled a ‘test case for development’ could have made such striking gains in development outcomes over the past two decades (see table 1). These gains were hard to reconcile amidst Bangladesh’s natural and Rana Plaza-type disasters, volatile politics and unfavorable rankings on governance indicators – themes which the Economist has often covered before, and after, this “achievements” piece.
The students of Rajshahi University (RU) staged sit in at the university administration building premises protesting the police firing on them and demanded exemplary punishment to the involved police members.
Earlier, on Friday law enforcers fired rubber bullets on the agitate students who put barricade on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway protesting their fellow Sabrina Jahan’s death in road crash.
Sabrina Jahan, a second year student of Sociology ...
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations for 2014 have been shifted to February 9 due to Biswa Ijtema.
The Ministry of Education approved the schedule on Wednesday, Subodh Chandra Dhali, Public Relations officer of the ministry, told reporters.
The examinations were supposed to start on February 2. The written examinations will end on March 13 as the practical exams are scheduled to begin on March 16.
The morning shift examinations will be held from 10 am to 1 pm while that of afternoon shift from 2 pm to 5...
