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Govt provides opportunity to ensure education for all: Nahid
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the government is providing adequate opportunities to ensure education for all.
We have taken different affirmative policy actions including introducing stipend programmes and providing free textbooks, which eventually help check student dropout rate, he told a freshers reception function of first year students of Dhaka College on Sunday, an official release said.
Nahid said despite a number of challenges, Bangladesh has some remarkable and praiseworthy achievements in the education sector. He said, You (students) are the future of the country. So, you have to be good citizens through acquiring knowledge to boost the development process for building a prosperous Bangladesh. Secretary of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Division Sohrab Hossain and Director General of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Prof Mahabubur Rahman, among others, addressed the function with Principal of the College Prof Moyazzem Hossain Mollah in the chair.
Brain engineering seminar held at AIUB
The department of Computer Science and Engineering of American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) in cooperation with Massive Star, Studio Limited, organised a research awareness seminar for students and faculties of the AIUB, titled as Brain Engineering: Opportunities Feasibilities recently, says a aprs release.
It was arranged to foster greater interest in brain engineering research, familiarise the participants with brain work, and provide a platform to exchange views on the technological development of brain engineering.
The session was conducted by Engr SM Mahabub Alam, Managing Director and CEO of Massive Star Studio Ltd., Dr Sirajee Shafiqul Islam, associate professor, National Institute of Neuroscience, and Dr Tabin Hasan, associate professor and head of graduate programme, American International University of Bangladesh. The session was attended by students and faculties from various departments of AIUB.
RMUs syndicate approves Tk 6.13cr budget
RAJSHAHI: Tk 6.13 crore budget has been approved for Rajshahi Medical University (RMU) for its 2018-19 financial year.
The syndicate approved the annual budget in a meeting held on Sunday with RMUs Vice-chancellor and Syndicate President Prof Masum Habib in the chair.
The meeting also approved RMUs own monogram and examination committee for post basic nursing. Prof Masum Habib said Tk 4.13 crore of the total budgets will come from Bangladesh University Grants Commission and the rest from its own sources.
He told the meeting that all the existing public and private medical colleges, dental colleges and nursing colleges and institutes in Rajshahi, Rangpur and Khulna divisions were brought under the jurisdiction of RMU.
The university will conduct 85 post-graduate courses under nine faculties. Appointment was given to some of the major posts including registrar and controller of examinations.
There will be a 1,000-bed modern hospital attached to the university. A nursing institute will also be established for creating skilled nurses.
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