Bangladesh Education Forum launches campaign to internationalise the country’s US$4.6bln higher education sector

Bangladesh Education Forum launches campaign to internationalise the country’s US$4.6bln higher education sector

- A number of Bangladeshi universities are participating at the international conference held in Dubai from November 4-6, 2022, that saw students enrolling themselves in Bangladeshi universities

- “Bangladesh is soon going to emerge as an alternative higher education destination with thousands of foreign students already studying in various universities and medical colleges in Bangladesh, that is adding to the growing remittance inflow in to the country,” -- Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury, Deputy Education Minister of Bangladesh

Date: Dubai, UAE and Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Education Forum 2022 – the first-of-its-kind international conference to underline the success of the higher education sector of Bangladesh has successfully taken off at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Deira Dubai, that is aimed at re-positioning Bangladesh as a high-quality and cost-effective higher education destination in the world.

With a vision to attract international students to the country’s universities, medical colleges, dental colleges, general and specialized colleges, Bangladesh – which has been a net exporter of students to other countries that drained a large amount of foreign currency every year – now looks at becoming a net importer of foreign students that could fetch the country a large amount of foreign currency every year.

“Our education system was never bad, however the