Professor Mamun Ahmed, chairman of the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, has really useful the Japan International Cooperation Agency to contemplate the real wants of the nation’s universities in formulating venture proposals to enhance the standard of science and know-how training within the nation.
The UGC chairman made this suggestion in a gathering held with the JICA delegation on the UGC in Dhaka on Thursday, mentioned a press launch.
He additionally recommended forming a joint committee to make mandatory suggestions for this.
It is essential to confirm the real wants and capabilities of the nation’s universities earlier than formulating venture designs. For this goal, the UGC chairman proposed to organise a tripartite assembly with the participation of universities in Japan and Bangladesh, UGC and the Ministry of Education.
A five-member delegation led by JICA Bangladesh consultant Nishi Rizuki participated within the assembly.
UGC members Professor Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan, Professor Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Professor Md Saidur Rahman, Professor Masuma Habib and Professor Mohammad Ayub Islam, amongst others, had been current on the assembly.
JICA delegation mentioned within the assembly that work was underneath approach to formulate a five-year venture to enhance the standard of science and know-how training on the nation’s two high universities — Dhaka University and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, which can begin in 2028.
A survey is scheduled to be performed this yr as an preliminary preparation for the venture.
If this venture is carried out, lab-based training programmes can be expanded within the universities. At the identical time, initiatives can be taken to present work alternatives in superior laboratories in Japan, joint diploma programmes, and internships in Japan for undergraduate college students, PhD scholarships for academics and college students and strengthen industry-academia connections, they added.
At the assembly, the JICA representatives talked about that in 2026, Bangladesh was going to graduate from the checklist of least developed nations and enter the ranks of growing nations.
In this context, the demand for know-how, innovation and expert human assets will improve quickly, they mentioned, believing that it was mandatory to additional strengthen the upper training sector to meet that demand.
The UGC chairman mentioned that if the venture proposed by JICA was carried out correctly, there could be a qualitative change within the nation’s greater training sector.
He additionally talked about that worldwide cooperation may play a particular function in enhancing the standard of those establishments.