32 universities to get UGC's academic innovation fund
Monday, 29 November 2010
A total of 32 universities will get grants from Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) of University Grants Commission (UGC) by the next month, reports BSS.
Among the universities, 29 are public universities and three others are in private sector, said an official source.
The AIF was established involving 50 million US dollars under a World Bank-aided project in a bid to enhance the quality of teaching, learning and research in the country.
"The project titled Higher Education Quality Enhanc-ement Project (HEQEP), is being implemented with the financial support of the World Bank (WB) at a cost of US dollar 81 million," said a WB official Sunday.
The official said the HEQEP project would help bring both innovation and accountability in universities and enhance the technical and institutional capacity of the higher education sector.
The main objective of the project is to establish conditions that will stimulate teaching, improve learning, and boost research in universities and introduce an efficient instrument for the allocation of public funds to universities.
Started last year, the three-year HEQEP has made steady progress in formation of the AIF, which will improve the standard of education in the world.
Earlier, 32 public and three private universities submitted 725 preliminary proposals and out of them 552 proposals were shortlisted and submitted to UGC's Academic Innovation Secre-tariat after review.
After further scrutiny, 456 qualified proposals have been evaluated by the Area Review Panel members from which the winning proposals will be awarded.
The winning proposals from public and eligible private universities will receive first round of grant awards from the UGC by December. The second round of call for the Academic Innovation Fund proposals will be announced in March 2011.
The project also aims to integrate Bangladesh's universities in the globalised world of knowledge and establish a Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN) to have a high speed connectivity among the universities and research institutions in the world.
Under the project, the sources said, a digital library would also be set up to provide university faculty and students access to the global repository of knowledge.
Among the universities, 29 are public universities and three others are in private sector, said an official source.
The AIF was established involving 50 million US dollars under a World Bank-aided project in a bid to enhance the quality of teaching, learning and research in the country.
"The project titled Higher Education Quality Enhanc-ement Project (HEQEP), is being implemented with the financial support of the World Bank (WB) at a cost of US dollar 81 million," said a WB official Sunday.
The official said the HEQEP project would help bring both innovation and accountability in universities and enhance the technical and institutional capacity of the higher education sector.
The main objective of the project is to establish conditions that will stimulate teaching, improve learning, and boost research in universities and introduce an efficient instrument for the allocation of public funds to universities.
Started last year, the three-year HEQEP has made steady progress in formation of the AIF, which will improve the standard of education in the world.
Earlier, 32 public and three private universities submitted 725 preliminary proposals and out of them 552 proposals were shortlisted and submitted to UGC's Academic Innovation Secre-tariat after review.
After further scrutiny, 456 qualified proposals have been evaluated by the Area Review Panel members from which the winning proposals will be awarded.
The winning proposals from public and eligible private universities will receive first round of grant awards from the UGC by December. The second round of call for the Academic Innovation Fund proposals will be announced in March 2011.
The project also aims to integrate Bangladesh's universities in the globalised world of knowledge and establish a Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN) to have a high speed connectivity among the universities and research institutions in the world.
Under the project, the sources said, a digital library would also be set up to provide university faculty and students access to the global repository of knowledge.