North East University starts journey Saturday

SYLHET: North East University is going to launch its journey on Saturday with the slogan ‘Education and Research for Innovation’.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will inaugurate the university in the morning at Jalalabad Gas auditorium of Mendibag in the city.

Advocate Iqbal Ahmed Chowdhury, chairman of university board of trustee, will preside over the function.

However, the academic activities of the university have already been started at six programmes under four faculties, university sources said.

The university will place a unique position in teaching students by applying the latest education methods, hoped the trustee chairman.

Among others, Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Badaruddin Ahmad Kamran, former Governor of Bangladesh Bank Professor Dr Mohammed Farash Uddin, former Vice Chancellor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Professor Dr. Sadaruddin Ahmed Chowdhury, former chairman of the Privatization Board Enam Ahmed Chowdhury, Hafiz Ahmed Majumder MP, Imran Ahmad MP, Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury MP, Syeda Zebunnessa Haq MP, Education Secretary Kamal Abdul Naser, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Vice-Chancellor Professor Saleh Uddin Ahmed, Sylhet Agricultural University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr. Shahid Ullah Talukder, Sylhet range DIG Md Makbul Bhuiyan, Sylhet Metropolitan Police Commissioner Amulya Bhusan Barua will address the function.

BDST: 2029 HRS, JUN 08, 2012

Edited by:
Mohammed Humayun Kabir, Sr Newsroom Editor