Campus Report :
Under a project namely ‘Transforming English Language Skills in the Higher Education Sector in Bangladesh (TELSHEB)’, British Council and the UGC Bangladesh have jointly created four different academic modules titled ‘English for Academic Purposes 1 (EAP 1), English for Academic Purposes 2 (EAP 2), English for Employability (EfE) and Professional Development (PD), with a plan to implement first three modules as uniformed English course materials for students in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Bangladesh and the last one as a professional development course for the subject teachers of the HEIs.
American International University- Bangladesh (AIUB) started the roll out in pilot basis of these four modules for the duration of January 2014 to June 2014 through the master trainers of this project M Hamidul Haque and Asif Kamal, Assistant Professors, Department of English, AIUB.
After the completion of these courses, British Council and UGC jointly provided certificates to be distribution to 210 students and 26 teachers of AIUB who successfully completed the courses under these modules.
The certificates were distributed among the participants of the modules in presence of the honorable Pro-Vice Chancellor of AIUB Prof. Dr. Charles Villanueva as the chief guest, Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Tazul Islam and Head of the Department of English Dr. Faheem Hasan Shahed on 17 July 2014 in the seminar room of Campus 7, AIUB.
A ten-day long training session from 10th December 13 to 20th December 13 was held for the Master Trainers of this project. AIUB’s Department of English is a proud partner in this project as one of the need analyses was conducted in AIUB as well as two of the twenty master trainers selected from different public and private educational institutions from the whole of Bangladesh are from AIUB. Master Trainer Mr. M Hamidul Haque is also one of the authors of the modules rolled out.
Moreover, the audio-visual materials imbedded in these modules are created by the media studio of AIUB under the supervision of Mr. M Hamidul Haque. However, the training session was successfully conducted by two UK consultants Mr. Richard Cullen and Mr. Mark Almond.
The Vice Chancellor of AIUB Dr. Carmen Zita Lamagna graced the chair of special guest in the inauguration of the training and also extended the heartfelt support to make the project successful. After the training, the Master trainers started the roll out of the modules in their respective institutions.
