City Desk :
The country’s higher education should be taken to the desired place to tackle the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and make the process of building a developed Bangladesh easier. Vice-Chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) Professor Dr. Md. Hasibur Rashid said this on the twelfth instant while addressing two seminars arranged separately for students and teachers at the university as the chief guest.
The Office of the External Affairs of Begum Rokeya University and American Embassy in Bangladesh jointly organized the seminars on higher education opportunities and various types of scholarships in the United States of America (USA).
Teachers and students from different departments of BRUR participated in the seminars, reports BSS.
Cultural Affairs Officer at the American Embassy in Dhaka Khadija Mahmud, its Education and Academic Exchange Program Specialist Raihana Sultana, English Language Program Coordinator Shaun Karmaker and Education USA Student Advisor and Outreach Coordinator Q. M. Mushfiqur Hasan presented detailed accounts of higher education opportunities in the USA.
They said Bangladeshi students and young professionals have the opportunity to study under scholarships in the Masters programs at different American Universities at no cost.
They informed that undergraduate students and young professionals will have the opportunity to pursue postgraduate degrees at American Universities completely free of cost under the Fulbright Foreign Student Program. Director of the External Affairs Office of BRUR Sabbir Ahmed Chowdhury thanked the American Embassy officials for their cooperation and participation in the seminar in the field of higher education.
The Vice-chancellor said that the seminars would play vital roles in creating opportunities for students and teachers of BRUR for studies in reputed institutions of higher learning in the USA.
