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Allow offshore campuses

Speakers urge govt

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a seminar yesterday called for formulating a policy allowing reputed foreign universities to set up their campuses in the country.
They said setting up campuses of foreign universities in the country would provide an opportunity to Bangladeshi students to acquire international degrees by studying athome.
While thousands of Bangladeshi students are studying abroad for Australian, American and British degrees, the government still couldn’t formulate a policy on setting up offshore campuses in the country, wJiich could have saved a lot of foreign currency, they added.
The seminar titled 'Development through education: Opportunities in Bangladesh and
Pakistan' was organised by the University and Industry Alliance (U&I Alliance), a management and development consultant affiliated with Dhaka University (DU), at Radisson Water garden Hotel in the city.
Chaired by Prof GM Chowdhury, president of U&I /Alliance, the inaugural session of the seminar was addressed by Prof Dr SMA Faiz, vice-chancellor of DU, Alamgir Babar, high commissioner of Pakistan in Dhaka, and Nasreen Mahmud Kasuri, founder of the Beaconhouse School System.
Dr Faiz said collaboration with other countries, particularly with the ones in the region, is the one way to receive quality education and attract investment in this sector.
He said given the many commonalities between Bangladesh and Pakistan, bilateral cooperation has much potential and many facets yet to be explored and exploited to the full.
Speaking at the seminar, Alamgir Babar announced that Pakistan government would provide 35 fully-funded additional
scholarships for Bangladeshi students over the next two academic years in different disciplines.
"Friendly countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan need to share and fully leverage their academic and educational resources to stay relevant and competitive in the prevailing environment," he added.
Nasreen Mahmud Kasuri said the Saarc countries experience quite identical challenges and issues, therefore, the availability of innumerable inter-regional collaboration opportunities need to be effectively explored so that an inter-regional environment of research and reflection can be established.
Prof GM Chowdhury said globalisation of education, including cross-border education, has drastically changed fee structure, knowledge dissemination mode, and degree awarding criteria by the academic institutions.
For instance, one can obtain a degree from a British university by studying in its off-shore campuses in Malaysia or China, he added.