British Council
British Council Bangladesh organised a briefing for the Commonwealth Scholarship holders on their UK pre-departure at UGC auditorium yestewrday. UGC Chairman Professor Abdul Mannan briefed them. UGC Chairman termed the Bangladeshi teachers and students, who have been awarded Commonwealth Scholarship as precious assest of the country. He urged them to utilize their talents in the nation building activities in Bngladesh after returning from UK at the end of higher study there.
Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
JU Correspondent
A workshop on self-assessment report writing was held at Jahangirnagar University (JU) organized by Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) project of JU here at the campus yesterday. JU Vice-Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam inaugurated the programme as the chief guest while Pro-VC Prof Abul Hossain present as special guest. In his address Prof Farzana said, the IQAC is playing a vital rule to increase skills of our teachers as well as it has a positive impact on our education. .Moderated by the Director of the Project Prof Ajit Kumar Majumdar, the key note paper presented by Specialist of University Grant Commossion (UGC) Prof M Abul Kashem and former VC of Noakhali University of Science And Technology (NUST) Prof Sanjoy Kumar. Among others, deans of different faculty, directors of various Institute, teachers and officials were present in the programme.
Green University Language Center
Green University Language Center (GULC) organised ‘3rd prize giving ceremony of book reading competition by British Council’ on Tuesday at Green Auditorium of the University.Honorable Vice-Chancellor of Green University Prof. Dr. Md. Golam Samdani Fakir was the Chief Guest,MsAfreen Al Mansura, Library Coordinator of British Council was special guest and chairpersons of different departments along with center director were also present as the Guests of honour, says a press release
Global Development Network (GDN)
The Global Development Network (GDN) has launched launch a new initiative with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Institute to document how the Japanese managerial philosophy of Kaizen actually performs recently. As part of its development assistance, Kaizen has been introduced by JICA in several countries, such as Ethiopia, Tunisia, Brazil, and across Asia, Central America and Eastern Europe. The new initiative will mobilize a series of empirical studies, conducted by local researchers in the developing world, to document and analyze the effectiveness of Kaizen. The two-year research initiative, involving 15 researchers and a budget of more than $500,000, comes at a time when the global economy continues to be uncertain, and slow to recover and when inclusive growth, employment and decent work for all have risen as first order challenges in developing countries.
Local researchers said, Pierre Jacquet, President of GDN, “because only they can generate the contextualized knowledge most crucial to policy-makers in their objective of promoting inclusive development, and because they are crucial to promoting ownership of proposed innovations.” Jacquet played a key role in shaping the study as a follow up to a discussion with JICA on sustainable growth at the sidelines of GDN’s 2015 Global Development Conference in Accra, Ghana. Naohiro Kitano, Director of the JICA Research Institute said, “After years of experiences with KAIZEN across the world, it will be good to know how it works to improve quality and productivity, and to achieve effectively inclusive, innovative and sustainable growth, and in what circumstances, says a press release.
