Campus Corner
DU VC leaves for UK
BSS, Dhaka
The Vice-chancellor (VC) of Dhaka University (DU) Professor Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman left here for London on Sunday on a five-day official visit at the invitation of Association of Commonwealth University (ACU). During the visit, the VC will attend Trustee Briefing, Executive Committee Meeting, Council Meeting and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the ACU to be held on December 2-3. Prof Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman is expected to hold bilateral talks of mutual interests especially on higher education, research and scholarship programmes with the ACU authorities. Earlier, he was elected as Council Member of the ACU in July this year. The VC will return home on December 5 after wrapping up his five-day official visit to the United Kingdom (UK).
US embassy opens student advising centre in Khulna
BSS, Dhaka
The US Embassy opened a new Education USA(EdUSA) Student Advising Centre in Khulna as part of its International Education Week (IEW) celebration. The new EdUSA Centre at the American Corner on the campus of Northern University of Business and Technology in Khulna will offer group information sessions and individual counseling services for students and parents at no- cost from 9 am to 5pm every Saturday to Thursday from now on, a press release said here. The US embassy hoped that the initiative will expand US-Bangladeshi educational linkages in the important education hub of Khulna with its many educational institutions, it said. The release said promoting educational exchanges between Bangladesh and the United States is a strategic priority for US Embassy Dhaka. International education exchanges benefit both our nations and peoples, boosting intellectual and cross-cultural capital as well as business and professional networks, and helping prepare students to enter the global job markets and solve the worlds toughest challenges, the release read.
