Bangladesh Open University (BOU) will soon launch bachelor programme (BA and BSS) for Bangladesh expatriates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. BOU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Syed Humayun Akhtar made the remarks while speaking at a recent virtual view-exchange meeting on the activities of BOU's Nish-2 programme with the Bangladesh Embassy in Saudi Arabia, said a press release on Friday (Jul 1).
Humayun said the BOU is going to introduce bachelor programme – Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) – outside the country so that the Bangladeshi expatriates, who are called remittance fighters, can become educated through this programme and can live with dignity there.
It is possible to increase the country's GDP with getting the remittance fighters educated through the BOU programme, he said.
Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary, BOU SSHL's Dean Professor Md Jahangir Alam, Dean of Open School Prof Sabina Yasmin, Acting Director of Information and Public Relations AFM Mezbah Uddin and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Bangladesh Embassy Abul Hasan Mridha, among others, spoke at the meeting.
