Nahid urges pvt varsities to enroll poor students

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Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Sunday urged the country's private universities to provide more financial supports to the talented poor students to help them get proper education to become worthy citizens of the country, reports BSS.
"Poor students have the right to get higher education and the private universities have the responsibilities to provide them with due supports," he said while addressing as the chief guest the 12th convocation of the North South University (NSU) at its new campus at Basundhara.
A total of 1,074 students were conferred under-graduation and post-graduation degrees from 16 disciplines. Among them, 816 were conferred undergraduate and 258 postgraduate degrees.
The Education Minister formally launched conferring the degrees upon the new graduates on behalf of President and Chancellor of the University Zillur Rahman.
Amith Khandaker and M Shafique Ahmed were awarded the Chancellor's gold medals while Farzana Firoz and M Hasib Bin Sayef were given the Vice- Chancellor's gold medals for their outstanding academic performances.
Australian High Commi-ssioner in Bangladesh Dr Justin Lee made the convocation speech while chairman of NSU foundation M A Awal and Vice- chancellor of the university Prof Hafiz G A Siddiqi also spoke on the occasion.
Dr Lee said Bangladesh's young people and students are its future as the country's human resources would deliver more development in the country.
M A Awal said the private universities, besides checking the exodus of students and the outflow of foreign currency to other countries, are helping the government in accommodating the growing number of students by giving higher education at home.
Prof Hafiz G A Siddiqi said establishment of an independent and effective accreditation council is necessary to raise the quality of education. "Provision of higher education is meaningless if it does not meet the local need and is not acceptable," he said.