President for ensuring standard of higher edn

President Md Abdul Hamid asked Thursday the universities to meet the challenge of ensuring the standard of higher education and its gradual improvement, said a press release.

"With the rise in the number of higher seats of learning and students, it has now become a bi    g challenge for us to ensure standard of education and its gradual improvement . . . universities would have to come forward with efforts in facing this challenge," the President said at the 14th convocation of East West University (EWU) in the city.

Former chief justice Tofazzel Hossain, Chair-person of the board of trustees of EWU Dr Muhammad Farasuddin and EWU VC Prof Ahmed Shafi spoke on the occasion.

Advocate Sultana Kamal delivered the convocation speech.

The President said the government has been working for the overall development of education and it formulated the National Education Policy-2010 and enacted the Private University Act 2010 for gradual expansion of education.