20,500 schools, colleges to recieve free laptops in Bangladesh

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20,500 schools, colleges receive free laptops in BangladeshA senior official of the Prime Minister’s Office said in Dhaka yesterday the government would provide free laptop computers to 7,114 secondary schools across Bangladesh in the next one year as part of its current endeavour of building ‘Digital Bangladesh.’
“The government has already provided laptop computers to 20,500 schools, madrasas and colleges free of cost in the current year,” said the prime minister’s Private Secretary Nazrul Islam Khan.
N I Khan, who is also national director of UNDP-funded A2I (access to information) project, operating from the prime minister’s office, said training has been imparted to the teachers of the respective educational institutions for ensuring proper utilisation of the laptops.
He said the initiative has been taken to make the classrooms more interactive by using computers, Internet and projectors.
The prime minister’s private secretary said all educational institutions of 64 districts would be brought under modern information technology in phases.
Meanwhile, the Netherlands would provide Bangladesh with financial support to help increase export of IT and IT-enabled services (ITES).An agreement to this effect was signed by Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), International Trade Centre (ITC), and Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries (CBI), Netherlands.
DCCI president Asif Ibrahim, BASIS President Mahboob Zaman, Deputy Executive Director of ITC Jean Marie Paugham and Deputy Managing Director of CBI **** De Man inked the agreement.“This is the start of a new journey for the Bangladesh IT industry into the outsourcing market of Europe with UN/WTO channel support. A great beginning indeed,” the BASIS president told newsmen.
The project, “Creating export competitiveness in the IT & IT-enabled services (ITES) sector in Bangladesh” financed by the Netherlands Trust Fund II (NTFII) will allow Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bangladesh to harness the export potential of the sector, sources in the DCCI said.
This will also help reap the benefits of its estimated 10% annual growth rate, they said.
The joint project aims to improve the image of Bangladesh as a destination for IT and ITES outsourcing and build the capacity of trade support institutions to provide customised and effective services, to increase the exports from this promising

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Govt has been able to enroll almost 100 pc children in primary schools: PM

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)

DHAKA, Sept 7 (BSS) - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government has been able to enroll almost 100 percent children in primary schools this year and committed to eradicating illiteracy within 2014.

In a message on the eve of International Literacy Day-2010, the Prime Minister said there is no alternative to educated and skilled human resources for achieving overall development of the country and strengthening democracy.

She said the present government is implementing various programmes to eliminate discrimination in the country's education system. "We are working to create skilled manpower through giving vocational education to illiterate people," she said.

Sheikh Hasina said the government has formulated 'National Education Policy-2010' and 'Sixth Five-Year Plan' by giving priority to women, backward people, small ethnic groups and rural people in the literacy programme.

"I hope we will be able to attain Vision-2021 through successful implementation of these programmes," she observed.

The Prime Minister urged all to move forward with united efforts for building a poverty and illiteracy-free 'Sonar Bangla', dreamt by the greatest Bangalee of all time Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

She wished success of all programmes of the Day.

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1. Government of Bangladesh has many Harvard/Oxford educated technocrats who are known for their academic prowess. It is they amongst others who formulate such policies and planning.

2. Kerala and other South Indian states have attained excellent levels of literacy, around 95% +, so if they can do it the Bangladesh needs to or it should be ashamed of itself.

3. Bangladesh then needs to make itself a centre of educational excellence. We already have BUET (Bangladesh University of Education and Technology), the AUW (Asian University for Women), International Islamic University Chittagong, Islamic University of Technology and the 2nd biggest madrassa in South Asia, Hathazari which teaches Sunni students from Iran's Khorasan province adjacent to Herat, as well as Muslim students from China (Karachi's Binooria is the biggest) and BRAC university.

Nafisa Sadat from Kabul, Community Health specialist, a BRAC alumni.

Abdul Qahar, from Nangahar, Medical officer, a BRAC alumni.

Sarah Elizabeth Baumann from the USA, Brac Alumni



Daniel Gwynne Jones, graduate from Canada's McGill university, BRAC alumni



Afghan students studying at Bangladesh's Asian University for Women