20,000 Bangladeshi students to get scope for edn in US a year

Says US Under Secretary Judith A Mchale
Visiting US under secretary of State Judith A McHale on Sunday assured Bangladesh of providing more assistance from her country.
He also praised the programmes of the present government for overall development of the people as well as the country.
Judith gave the assurance and appreciated the works of the government when she called on Prime Mini-ster Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Jamuna this morning.
The PM and the US under secretary also discussed on different issues including democracy, human rights, education system, climate change, economic developments and strengthening existing friendship between the two countries.
Referring to the longtime friendship between Bangl-adesh and the United States, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requested the US government to solve the problems facing the expatriate Ban-gladeshis in the USA. The US under secretary responded positively in this regard, Azad said. “We have congratulated the speech of President Obama at Cairo University and also believe that its reflection would bring welfare for the world community as soon as possible,” Hasina told Judith. While mentioning the role of President Barack Obama at the climate conference in Copenhagen, Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh is the most affected country due to climate change. Sheikh Hasina explained the programmes taken by her government to face the calamities created due to climate change before the US under secretary and sought US cooperation in this regard.
They also elaborately discussed on counter terrorism initiatives. The US official appreciated the role of Bangladesh in this regard and assured of extending helps for this purpose including imparting training to the law enforcing agencies.
Besides, the education system especially, the new education policy was discussed during the meeting. The US under secretary put emphasis on modernizing the madrasa education.
Later, Judith A McHale on Sunday hoped to see 20,000 students from Bangladesh in his country each year over the next decade as she disclosed some new initiatives for bolstering cooperation. She was delivering a lecture on “Building Bridges Throu-gh Studies in the US’ at senate Bhaban auditorium of Dhaka University (DU).
Judith said only 2,700 Bangladeshi students are now studying in the United States while the total number of foreign students studying in the USA stood at 6,50000.
DU Vice-Chancellor Profe-ssor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique presided over the programme while US Ambassador in Dhaka James F Moriarty, DU Pro-VC Harun-Or-Rashid, DU Treasurer Prof Mizanur Rahman and Director of the American Centre Lauren Lovelace also attended it.

Courtesy of BSS via TBT