Feature
Fulbright Scholarship
Edward Apurba Singha
In academic life scholarship is a precious achievement, which revives your spirit and enables you to reach the ultimate destination. Especially it is true for the developing countries where meritorious students belonging to the unprivileged community need adequate financial support to go for their higher education. Nowadays universities/institutions offer different scholarship programs and you need a strong academic background in order to grab these opportunities. But you should remember that, many scholarship schemes impose conditions and in the same time not able to meet your all requirements. In this article I described a renowned scholarship program that can add a new dimension in your academic life.
Fulbright Scholarship
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J William Fulbright |
US government offers this scholarship to attract potential students to contribute in science, history, literature, social development and other innovative areas. Incepted in 1946 and named after J William Fulbright this scholarship every year is given to the US citizens and the citizens of other countries in order to take their higher education in US academic institutions.
J William Fulbright was a senator (1945-1974) of US Democratic Party. He also acted as a Chairman of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He funded this scholarship program in order to establish a sustainable relationship between US citizens and the remaining world. Every year citizens of 110 countries get this scholarship.
Educated Bangladeshi people can apply for this scholarship program. To become eligible one should meet the following conditions:
'A' grade in Honours and Masters exams
People who have earned their degree from abroad or United States not eligible for this program
Fluency in English
Good health
Bangladeshi by birth
Sign an agreement to return to Bangladesh after course completion
If anyone returns to Bangladesh before completion of course must return the air fair
People at service can apply through the appropriate authority
Primarily selected candidates need to appear a viva session. After this session only finally selected candidates will sit for the TOFEL, GRE or GMAT exams. In addition, finally selected candidates also need to submit a formal application including all exam certificates, mark sheets and a passport size photograph.
Mahadi Hasan
Case study-1 Sakibul hasan a fresh engineer (passed B.Sc engineering recently) of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) is worried, because he has no 'mama'. Now a days 'mama' is a very familiar word for getting a job. There is a proverb in our country 'if there is no mama, there is no job'. That time Sakibul decide to meet the elder brothers who passed from his university. During campus life many elder brothers were known to him, but now all of those are not in campus. Sakibul heard many of them are in many potential job. He decided to communicate with them. But how would he communicate with them?
Case study-2
Anwar Hossain was a student of CUET. He passed 10 years ago. Now he is doing a job in an established construction company. Two engineers were needed for his project. He decided to take engineers who passed from his institution. But how would he find them?
These two problems were solved by some students of CUET 1999 batch. They created a website named www.mycuet.com, where all CUET student can create their own profile. Students who passed years ago can also submit their profile in that website. In the profile they can mention their address, cell/phone no, permanent address, occupation and other details. Besides, daily news about CUET also can be read in that website. There is also scope to chat.
The website was launched on 26 March in 2006. By now nearly 600 students have submitted their profile and day by day the number is increasing. Many students who passed out from CUET have already created their profile. Some of them are now employed in good jobs in the country and some are doing in other country.
For example, Mahbubul Islam Chowdhury, a student of 1988 batch doing a job as a Product (HW/SW) Engineer Saturn Electronics and Engineering Inc. Auburn Hills, Michigan 48326 USA.
(Writer is the CUET correspondent of Prothm-Alo)
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