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Asia Edn Summit Ends

US to give 5 new Fulbright positions for Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent
The US government authorises five new Fulbright positions for Bangladesh in the area of food security, said US Ambassador in Dhaka lames F Moriartyyesterday.
"The US government through the State Department's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, has just authorised Fulbright positions for Bangladesh who will pursue master's degree programmes in the US in the area of food security," he said at the closingceremony of Asia Regional Higher Education Summit at a city hotel.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in association with Dhaka University (DU) and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) organised the summit which was attended by around 150 academics and officials from public and private sectors in Asia and the US.
Speaking at the closing ceremony as the guest of honour, Moriarty said the summit has opened the next chapter for new partnerships, new networks and new ideas, and this new chapter started with a pledge from participants to support and expand partnerships between various sectors of society to meet the development challenges of the future.
“I hope all participants have
gained an appreciation for the critical role that higher education institutions play in addressing some of the world's most pressing development issues --food security, women's entrepreneurship, teachers' training and natural disaster managemen t." he said.
DU Vice-chancellor Prof SMA Faiz said modern societies now entrust universities with greater responsibilities than ever before
and so higher education institutions need to project themselves as role model and make teaching, research, scholarships and also regional and international partnerships much more visible. •
"In dealing with the challenges we need to overcome our own internal constraints, create research facilities within our own institutes and make sure that we can effectively participate to make the scope of research and education interdisciplinary and international,” he added.
Prof Faiz said there may be greater need for extending coordinated support to less resourceful universities of the third world countries in terms of technology transfer, building centre of excellence. providing scholarships and grants, exchange of expertise and information and resource mobilisation whenever possible.
Denise Rollins, USAID mission director, Bangladesh, said it is not the ending, it is the beginning of new relationships and possibilities.
"We have had fruitful discussions that will lead the way to more substantial and significant partnerships," she said, adding one of the outcomes of the summit is the creation of an Asia regional network.
Buet Vice-chancellor AMM Shafiullah also spoke at the closing ceremony.