Education

The British Council and Chevron held the closing ceremony for the ‘English for Business Success’ Project on 7 November 2018 at the Chevron office in Gulshan, Dhaka. The event showcased the impact and outcomes of the...

A celebration of the contribution of teachers and the launch of Connecting Classrooms phase four was held on 29 October 2018 at the British Council Dhaka University campus office. World Teachers’ Day, also known as International...

The British Council organized IELTS Scholarships 2018 award ceremony at their Dhaka University campus office on Wednesday, 10 October 2018. These scholarships were given to the winners after a rigorous selection process comprising of written tests...

1 in 3 children and young people between 5 and 17 years old living in countries affected by conflict or disaster – 104 million – are not in school, a figure that accounts for more than...

IMSS has recently completed a $4.2 million campus computing upgrade, creating a new High Performance Computing (HPC) Center to assist labs across campus with large-scale computational work. Vice Provost Kaushik Bhattacharya notes that “high-performance computing has...

Recently, on behalf of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) in the UK, the British Council organized a pre-departure briefing for departing Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows for 2018-19 at the auditorium of the British Council Dhaka University...

early 23 million children are out of school in Pakistan. 23-year old social activist and educationist, Rohayl Varind set up two branches of Slum School in Faisalabad, around 323 KM south of capital Islamabad, offering night...

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Lilly Singh, traveled to South Africa this week to meet children who are speaking out on classroom violence and bullying, as part of UNICEF’s work to end violence in schools. During her visit,...

World Environment Day is the “people’s day” for doing something to take care of the Earth. The theme for World Environment Day 2018 was ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ and motto was ‘If you cannot reuse it, refuse...

Southeast Asia’s Grab is jointly investing S$6 million ($4.4 million) with the National University of Singapore to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory to help improve the efficiency and utilization of vehicles on its platform. The...