University Grants Commission
A-three member UGC-Ministerial delegation headed by Abdullah Al Naser Chowdhury, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Education attended a two-day long planning workshop on “German-Bangladesh Higher Education Network for Sustainable Textiles” at Gustav-Stresemann Institut, Langer Grabenweg 68, 53175 Bonn, Germany recently. The workshop was organised by GIZ (German Development Cooperation) in cooperation with DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). From UGC, Dr. Md. Khaled, Secretary, attended the workshop. Other member was Rafiq Ahmed Siddiqui, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Planning. At the German end, Mr. Lars Gerold, Head of Development Cooperation of DAAD, his colleagues and Mr. Christian von, Mitzlaff, GIZ, Dhaka office attended the workshop. In the workshop, it was agreed that proposals from the selected ten universities of Bangladesh will be invited on 18 July 2017 to attend a match-making workshop with selected number of universities in Germany. The workshop will be held in Berlin, Germany at the 3rd week of September 2017. In the workshop, two Bangladeshi universities will be selected for working in cooperation with two German universities for working on German-Bangladesh Higher Education Network for Sustainable Development of Textiles in Bangladesh, says a press release.
Islamic Arabic University
Islamic Arabic University National Completion-2017 was inaugurated yesterday aiming to practice of knowledge among madrasah students. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid inaugurated the completion at a function as the chief guest at Krishibid Institution of Bangladesh, an official release said. Islamic Arabic University is organizing the completion. Secretary of Secondary and Higher Education Md Sohrab Hossain and Secretary of Technical and Madrasah Education Md Alamgir, among others, addressed the function with Vice Chancellor of Prof Dr Muhammad Ahsan Ullah in the chair.Nahid said quality of madrasah education has improved as the government has taken various initiatives in the past eight years.”We have been made madrasah education time-befitting and modern incorporating science and IT to ensure better access of students to job markets,” he added.Referring to different initiatives for the development of madrasah education, the minister said 35 model madrasahs have been set up and honour course introduced at 51 madrasahs.
