U21 Global-Aiminlife tie-up for online education

With a view to promoting complete e-learning facilities in Bangladesh, U21 Global and Aiminlife.com announced their partnership on August 13. U21 Global is a premier online graduate school, backed by 20 world-class universities. Aiminlife, on the other hand, is the fast-growing career portal in Bangladesh. Under the partnership agreement, Aiminlife will provide services like recruiting, counselling and other facilities to local students.
Many dignitaries were present at the signing of the business partnership at Hotel Sheraton, including President Iajuddin Ahmed, Foreign Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury and Dr Helen Lange, dean of Business Management Programmes, U21 Global.
Other participants were Dr Mukesh Aghi, chief executive officer (CEO), U21 Global, Yussuf A Harun, president, International Institute of Business Analysis Bangladesh, Aiminlife's chief adviser Syed Marghub Murshed and its chief executive officer Shoeb Chowdhury.
President Iajuddin said this kind of initiative is essential to enrich the existing education system, which will help achieve global standard. Dr Aghi stressed that "this partnership further underscores our commitment to promoting e-learning initiatives in Bangladesh and across the region". Dr Lange in her multimedia presentation highlighted different online programs, partner universities and other academic information.
Yussuf A Harun emphasised quality education in order to prepare the next generation for the challenges they will encounter. Syed Marghub Murshed maintained that "Aiminlife is committed to fulfilling the needs of our youngsters as well as creating an ideal online education system". He also talked about Dr Muhammad Shahidullah scholarship awards in his speech. Shoeb Chowdhury expressed his gratitude to the panel members and audience for their participation.
U21 Global has successfully enrolled students from 60 countries around the world. The graduate programmes draw on the best practices in online learning and pedagogy and have been approved by U21 pedagogica, an independent quality assurance body which ensures that the curriculum meets the rigorous academic standards of all the affiliated universities.
Aiminlife on the other hand is trying to provide best career services by teaming up with different organisations. It is also planning to organise seminars, workshops and training programs in different fields in order to boost the quality of students.

Edward Apurba Singha