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Saluting the Nation Builders of Tomorrow

Laurels for O and A level achievers

Staff Correspondent
Amid fanfares and jubilation The Daily Star yesterday honoured 629 outstanding achievers in the O- and A-levcl examinations of July 2003-June 2004 academic year at the city’s Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre.
Speakers at die festive function styled ’Saluting the Nation Builders of Tomorrow’ called on the young scholars to keep their studies on to the highest level wherever available, but with the ultimate goal to serve their country as its future leaders.
Every year since 1999 The Daily Star has been awarding Certificates of Excellence and medals to the students who secure six or more ’A's in two consecutive sittings in the O-level and a minimum of three in the A-levcl* exams held under the Cambridge University and the UnivcrsityofLondon.
This sixth round of the prestigious award went to 629 students from 40 schools - 536 for brilliant O-level scores and 93 for A-lcvel.
As the chief guest of the gala, Founding Executive Chairperson of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (Brae) Fazlc Hasan Abed presented the certificates and medals to the future'Nation Builders’.
The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam presided over the felicitations with British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury, Virgin Beverages Chairman Abul Kashem Haider and Bashar N Tariq from Citibank NA present among the elite guests.
Abed lauded The Daily Star’s steps recognising and encouraging the students’ dedication and endeavours.
As an illustration ofhis belief that every child of this land is a potential savant, he recalled the story of a
child adopted by an American couple from a Dhaka orphanage, who later attained the distinction of being the best student in California.
The British high commissioner said the high number of world-renowned and.eminent professionals of Bangladeshi origin suggests
that students here do not lack in aptitude, rather it is the educational environment that matters.
The British government would like to work with you to improve that environment," Choudhury added.
'Develop it locally and deliver it globally' was the slogan Choudhury
used to depict the vision he prescribed for the aspirant high achievers here, who he said rank among the world's best and can succeed at anylcvel.
Such achievements in a globally competitive field constitute the passport to power, opportunities
and employment, noted the UK envoy referring to the award winners' exam results.
Mahfuz Anam in his welcome speech appreciated the large number of good grade achievers in an internationally competitive framework
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(of O- and A-level exams), in spite of the challenging conditions of studying in Bangladesh.
He urged the award recipients to commit themselves to serve the country, saying, "With your collective intellectual wealth, we can generate the material wealth that we need to prosper."
Anam expressed the hope that the recognition the 629 high scorers were receiving would "inspire the students at lower grades to aspire to similar academic excellence".
Addressing the awardees Haider said, "Finish your education, then come back and serve the nation," adding, who else but the youths of today would lake charge of the nation in the future.
Tariq said he looks forward to seeing the awardees take over the stewardship of the country.
Asheque Elahi Shams from South
Breeze International School, who received 11 'A’s In one sitting in the O-level exams, and Tanvir Manzoor Hussain from Mastermind School, who received five 'A's in one sitting in the A-level exams, spoke on behalf of the awardees.
In the January 200-1 A-level exam session three students of Mastermind School and in the June 2004 session four Schoiastica students secured the highest marks in their respective subjects.
In the January 200-1 O-level exam session, six students of Maple Leaf International School scored the country’s highest, while Schoiastica dominated the June 200-1 session with nine of its students bagging the highest marks in their respective subjects.
Imran H Khan and Elita Karim of Hie Daily Star conducted the nearly three-hour ceremony.