Targeting a cybernetic generation

A participant receives certificate from Dr. A Majeed Khan

The event was initiated by Dr A Majeed Khan, vice chancellor of UITS. At the inaugural Khan stated how the university systems in Bangladesh should accommodate a better role in establishing a generation of cybernetic population.

The workshop, which offered training on HTML, Microsoft PowerPoint, GIF Animator, Macromedia Flash and Freehand, was supervised by Dr Hafizur Rahman and Sanjoy Kumar Roy of the Department of Information Technology. Paper handouts were provided for the learners' benefit.

To attend the workshop, each participant had to register paying a minimal fee of Tk 150. "This was only a token money, to compensate for the cost of the certificates for the participants," said F M A Salam, assistant director of the Communication and Public Relation Department. He also mentioned how a similar event pulled a larger crowd previously. "We hope students across the capital will take full advantage of such cost-free workshops in the future," Salam added, promising similar workshops in the near future.

Established in 2003, UITS focuses on integrating job skill development while ensuring that students will be employed at every stage of UITS education, including campus jobs, practical private projects and internships and other research-oriented propositions. "Most of our students are making three to four thousand taka per month, and this may as well inspire them to understand the validity of student work-force for a nation," mentioned Salam.

The university strongly focuses on building team of graduates with a strong IT knowledge-base, hence offers its students with multiple computer and communication laboratories, unlimited internet access, a fully equipped library and an IT help desk. "Our nation has yet to go far to reach the international highway of technology," said Dr Majeed. He was handing over the certificates to the individual participants. Majeed urges on keeping an interrelationship between students and the faculty members of the educational institutions, emphasising on how the country's academic leaders may help to build an IT-oriented nation by promoting general participations through such cost-free workshops.