Universities to get high speed internet connectivity

Campus Report :
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided to bring all the public and private universities under high speed internet connectivity to support the country’s tertiary level schooling.
UGC already drew out the connectivity road-map for all the universities named ‘Bangladesh Research and Higher Education Network (BdREN)’.
“To bring all the higher education institutions under the connectivity programs across the country, the authorities have already subscribed 3,000 km long ‘Dark Fiber’ line for 20 years”, said UGC Chairman Prof AK Azad Chowdhury.
He told that the connectivity program will be implemented under the World Bank funded Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP). The UGC chairman said the universities’ regulator already implemented the program in some selected varsities including Dhaka University and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) on trial basis.