Robi, UGC sign deal to facilitate online education for univ students

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has teamed up with Robi, a leading telecom operator in the country, to facilitate online education with affordable means for university students across the country.    

The UGC today signed a deal with Robi through a programme held digitally to make the efforts successful, said a press release of the telecom operator.

The agreement will provide an affordable means for the university teachers and students to conduct their educational activities through online.

Under the agreement, Robi will provide 30 GB data pack with 30 days validity at an affordable rate to any university willing to take the facilities.

Robi’s Chief Enterprise Business Officer Md Adil Hossain and UGC’s Secretary Ferdous Zaman signed the MoU.

Robi’s Managing Director and CEO, Mahtab Uddin Ahmed and UGC Chairman, Prof Kazi Shahidullah, among others, were present at the MoU signing ceremony.

All members of the UGC, Robi’s Cluster Market Director, Muhammad Mehedi Hasan, Executive Vice President, Market Operation Md Mahbubul Alam Bhuiyan, Vice President, Enterprise Business Abul Kalam Mohammad Nazmul Islam, General Manager, Enterprise Business, Mohammad Monerul Islam, and others, were also present at the programme.

Robi is the first operator to have introduced this game changing data package for university teachers and students.

A total of 12 leading public and private universities including BUET, CUET, Chittagong University, Jagannath University and a number of private universities have already reached a deal with Robi to avail the affordable data package offer.

Around 75,000 teachers and students are already being benefited from the offers. Signing of the MoU with the UGC, it will make easier for the rest of the country’s universities to avail the same opportunity.

The company has created the country’s largest online school, Robi-10 Minute School, which had been the primary source of quality education content for millions of students from all over the country during the pandemic of coronavirus.

Apart from this, Robi-10 Minute School made its studios available for the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (Class 6- 10) to shoot for the educational content for broadcasting through the state run TV channel BTV.

Thus the school became an integral part of the national initiatives for online or broadcast based education during the pandemic.