Public varsities to get special funds for research
Thursday, 25 March 2010
DU Correspondent
Special allocations would be provided to strengthen research activities in some public universities including Dhaka University (DU) to enable them become world-class universities, University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Prof Nazrul Islam said.
The UGC chairman was speaking as the chief guest at a day-long Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) Promotion Workshop at DU Senate Bhaban Wednesday.
DU and UGC jointly organised the workshop under the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP), a World Bank-funded project to improve the quality of teaching and research in the educational institutions of Bangladesh.
The UGC chairman urged the teachers concerned to implement the project in the best possible way and expressed the hope that the project would contribute much to scale up the standard of education and research in the public universities.
DU Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Harun-or-Rashid, UGC Member Prof Ehsanul Haque, HEQEP Director Ruknud-Deen Ahmed and DU Planning and Development Director Md Zahirul Haque, among others, spoke at the workshop with DU VC Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique in the chair.
Special allocations would be provided to strengthen research activities in some public universities including Dhaka University (DU) to enable them become world-class universities, University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Prof Nazrul Islam said.
The UGC chairman was speaking as the chief guest at a day-long Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) Promotion Workshop at DU Senate Bhaban Wednesday.
DU and UGC jointly organised the workshop under the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP), a World Bank-funded project to improve the quality of teaching and research in the educational institutions of Bangladesh.
The UGC chairman urged the teachers concerned to implement the project in the best possible way and expressed the hope that the project would contribute much to scale up the standard of education and research in the public universities.
DU Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Harun-or-Rashid, UGC Member Prof Ehsanul Haque, HEQEP Director Ruknud-Deen Ahmed and DU Planning and Development Director Md Zahirul Haque, among others, spoke at the workshop with DU VC Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique in the chair.