Bangladesh Open University

Photo source

The Bangladesh Open University (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ উন্মুক্ত বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) or BOU is a state funded college with its fundamental grounds in Board Bazar, Gazipur District, Dhaka Division. It is the seventh biggest college on the planet as indicated by enrolment.

The college was built up on 21 October 1992. As the main state funded college in Bangladesh to utilize remove training as a technique for conveyance, BOU is commanded to "advance through sight and sound; direction of each standard and learning – both general and logical – by methods for any type of interchanges innovation, to raise the standard of instruction and to give the general population instructive open doors by democratizing training and making a class of able individuals by raising the standard of training of the general population for the most part."

History:

bou_monument

Photo source

Separation training was first brought into Bangladesh when the Education Directorate was doled out with the duty regarding appropriation of 200 radio beneficiaries to instructive establishments. This prompted the making of an Audio-Visual Cell and later the Audio-Visual Education Center (AVEC) in 1962.

After accomplishing autonomy in 1971, mass instruction was seen as a need in the new country. The School Broadcasting Program (SBP) was propelled in 1978. The venture was later extended to end up the National Institute of Educational Media and Technology (NIEMT) in 1983. In 1985, the NIEMT was renamed the Bangladesh Institute of Distance Education (BIDE) which offered, aside from varying media materials, a Bachelor of Education (BEd) program by means of separation learning approved by the University of Rajshahi. The accomplishment of BIDE urged policymakers to take up a noteworthy arrangement for setting up an open college.

In 1992, the arrangement came into realization with the tabling and going of the BOU Act 1992 and Prime Minister was the chancellor of the Bangladesh Open University. On 22 June 2009, a bill was set in the parliament to allot the president as chancellor supplanting the head administrator.

Academics:

Open-University

Photo source

BOU offers two sorts of projects, formal and non-formal, in seven schools and a system of 12 territorial asset Centers, 80 co-ordinating workplaces and 1,000 instructional exercise focuses across the country.

Study programmes:

A sum of 21 formal scholarly projects are offered by BOU. Formal projects are scholarly projects that outcome in the granting of a scholastic capability up to a graduate degree upon finishing and examination.

As low rate of proficiency remains an issue in Bangladesh, non-formal projects are directed by the BOU to make mindfulness and confer information about wellbeing, condition, calamity administration, essential science, horticulture, sustenance, nourishment and different branches of learning for human improvement. To date, 19 non-formal projects have been started in the regions of ecological insurance, fundamental science, basic arithmetic, farming, bank administrations, promoting administration, wellbeing, nourishment, populace and sex issues.

Faculties:

BOU

Photo source

BOU's 11 divisions are composed into seven schools:

• School of Education: programs in instruction

• School of Social Science, Humanities and Language: programs in dialects ( English and Arabic) and sociology

• School of Business: projects of BBA, PGDM, Regular MBA and Commonwealth Executive MBA/MPA

• School of Agriculture and Rural Development: programs in agribusiness and improvement thinks about, B.Sc. in Agricultural Education, B.Sc. in Agriculture (up and coming), B.Sc. in Fisheries (up and coming).

• School of Science and Technology: B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), B.Sc. (Nursing), Diploma in Computer Science and Application (DCSA). M.Sc. in CSE (forthcoming), B.Sc. Engg. in ECE (Electronics and Communication Engineering) (up and coming), B. Sc. in Pharmacy (up and coming).

• School of Law: programs in law and legitimate investigations

• Open School: optional school finish programs

A full rundown of the local asset focuses and instructional exercise focuses subsidiary with BOU can be found from BOU's site.

Accreditation:

BOU is conceded the specialist to give degrees under Clause 6(c) of the BOU Act 1992. BOU is perceived as a national college by the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, a statutory body appended to the Ministry of Education.

The BOU is an establishing and taking an interest foundation of the SAARC Consortium on Open and Distance Learning (SACODiL).