Telenor Youth Forum Bangladesh 2015!

Meet Nowshin (from NSU) and Sifat (in the attached poster), the winners of  2014 Telenor Youth Summit (Bangladesh part). 

Do you have it in you to be this year’s youth leader? 

Apply before the time runs out. Application deadline: September 20, 2015

To apply click the link: http://goo.gl/sbRpEd

To know more information click: http://goo.gl/vnvdwL

‪#‎TYF2015

Message from Grameenphone:

"Join us at the Telenor Youth Forum, and engage in dialogue and communication across boundaries — real or imagined, physical or mental — that aim to foster understanding, prosperity and ultimately peace.

We’re not looking for simple solutions, we’re looking for interesting perspectives, unexpected stories, and insightful dialogue. We’re offering you a global stage, opportunities to meet and discuss with leaders and luminaries within their fields, and a social and professional experience of a lifetime.

This is the third consecutive year GP is going to roll out Telenor Youth Forum in Bangladesh. Telenor Youth Forum 2015 will be rolling out in different top tier universities in the country located in different regions. Please visit the link http://www.telenor.com/youthforum/essay/ to submit your idea.

For more information visit: http://www.grameenphone.com/about/media-center/telenor-youth-forum-2015

or http://www.telenor.com/youthforum/

Also do not hesitate to visit: https://www.facebook.com/TelenorYouthForum?fref=ts "

In additiin, You can also contact Ms. Bidita Rezwana, Coordinator, CPC (Rezwana.bidita@northsouth.edu;  bidita.rez@gmail.com) and Mr. Atiq, Assistant Officer, CPC (01712334460) for any further information.

Chinese Bridge Summer Camp 2015!

True Meaning of Education!

Yesterday afternoon I was going up to level-7 using the elevator#9. When the elevator stopped at level-5, a good number of students (may be about 10 of them or even more) got into the elevator who wanted to go down to level-1. Some of them were so desperate to get down to level-1, they used the emergency stop switch and changed the direction of the elevator to go down. Nobody even bothered to ask me or anybody else in the elevator if that was okay to do.

I was in a hurry and did not bother to stop them and gave them a lecture on their action. I just decided to get out of the elevator and walk two stories up to help burn my fat a little. But later realized that I should have stopped them and made them realize whatever they had done was wrong. I have done such things before but yesterday for some reason I just let it go! Now the problem is, after that incident, the memory of my ignorance/inaction is bothering me and it has kept coming back to me. The feeling is so strong and adamant that when I woke up from sleep in the middle of the night minutes ago (which is so rare that I cannot recall when such a thing happened to me in recent past), I have decided to let you guys know about this. This tiny write up is an attempt to console my soul that I am doing something positive by spreading this message or sharing my feelings.

The message is very simple but yet may be not easy enough to comprehend the deeper consequence. We have failed or have been failing to give our students education in true sense. The purpose of education is not only to give them a tertiary degree certificate, or make them a better manager who would make a right business decision, but also to make them a better person to bring a positive change to our society at large, to make us proud by contributing to our nation/world positively.

Their action revealed a manipulative character which is abundantly found around us in a society full of corruption where people are busy misrepresenting facts proving false to be true and true to be false. So, may be it’s high time we should realize and do something positive to change our system for the better and re-orient ourselves differently. May be instead of mass intake (garbage in garbage out) we should be more selective and also may be we should pay more attention in instilling integrity inside our students by building ethical & moral side of our students.

Thank you for your time who have bothered to stop by and read this message. I am sorry if I have inadvertently hurt anybody’s feelings in any way.

Blood Donation Drive!

NSU Social Services Club has organized a 4-day blood donation drive at NSU Recreation Center from 1st to 4th of June, 2014. Quantum Foundation will be collecting blood and providing free major blood tests including blood grouping for each donor. Donors are also given free ice cream/drink and souvenirs.

Please encourage your friends to come or at least visit the center to at least encourage the donors, and maybe donate and help save a life. Thanks.

 

Prepare for Finals!

Now that country-wide blockade/hartal programs are becoming less common, please prepare for the worst. That means your final exams may be held sooner than previously announced if bockade-free days become more available. So, please utilize your time wisely and don't get surprised to see a sudden final exam notice by the Registrar's Office.

Thanks.

Academic Achievement Higher Among Active Students!

by Abu Amin Khan

We come from a society that mainly focuses on academic education. Like most other South Asians, we want our children to study all day long, hoping they would excel at school. In the process we even discourage them from taking part in other activities such as sports. It’s tragic that we practically imprison them in the study rooms. We fail to realize the benefits of physical activity.

However, a new study states that children who participate in physical activity, such as sports, perform better in school. Statistics show the more active kids have better grades. One such example is Essam Sami Laskar who attained straight As in 8 subjects in the O-levels and followed it up with straight As in his 4 A-levels examinations. In recent years he represented the Bangladesh Junior Tennis Team at national and international events at home and abroad. He was an active participant in various intramural sports in high school achieving several awards.

When asked how he balances sports and studies at the same time, he says, “I wouldn’t do anything to hamper my studies but sports is my life. Everyone needs to go out and play. There’s always time; we just need to learn how to utilize our time properly.”

Source: The Daily Star

Blood Donation Drive!

NSU Social Services Club (NSU SSC) is organizing one of its major events 'Blood Donation Drive 2013'. In the program, NSU students take part by donating blood by their will. The blood samples are passed through several tests and then the best blood samples are donated to needy patients through Quantum foundation. This year, NSU SSC hopes to surpass their own set up country-wide record during the last year's campaign of collecting 651 blood samples in just 3 days. The program is taking place at the Recreation Center from today till 3rd of April, 2013.

Please show your support by visiting them at the Recreation Center, donating blood yourself, encouraging your friends and classmates to do so.

US TRADE SHOW 2013!

American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh is organizing US TRADE SHOW 2013 at the Ruposhi Bangla Hotel from 10.00 am to 8.00 pm, during February 14-16 (Thursday - Saturday). North South University is one participant in the Trade Show among few other private universities.

You are cordially invited to visit the show any day at your convenient time. NSU students can enter into the trade show for free showing NSU ID card.

Teach for Bangladesh Fellowship!

The Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) of North South University (NSU) is going to organize an Info Session of Teach for Bangladesh.The Teach for Bangladesh Fellowship is a highly selective, challenging and rewarding leadership development program for exceptional university graduates and young professionals who are committed to building an equitable Bangladesh, starting by teaching for two years in a disadvantaged community. Please find out more at: www.teachforbangladesh.org. The particulars of the event are as follows.

Date: Wednesday, 30 January, 2013
Date: 11:30 AM
Venue: NAC-514

Your participation will be highly appreciated.Thanks.

Pearls of Shomman!

1.   Laughter around a FAMILY dining table is like sunshine in a home. Root of courtesy starts here.

2.  Eighty percent FRICTION of life is caused by the wrong tone of voice. Check your tongue.

3.  Your CHILDREN learn by watching you. Your grand-children learn from your children. And generation goes on.

4.  ‘LOVE’ between life-partners means –‘make each other’s life more comfortable’.

5.  If the master (employer) makes the HELPING HANDS' (domestic help) eyes wet – Blessings fly away from that house.

6.  OLD PARENTS are Gold. New members in a family are Diamond. If you get a Diamond, don’t ignore the Gold. Because to hold a Diamond, you always need a Base of Gold.

Source: http://shomman.wordpress.com/pearls-of-shomman/

A Proud NSUer!

One of our undergraduate students, Sajid's story appeared in Prothom Alo. Please visit the following link for details.

http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2012-04-11/news/239473

Blood Donation!

Come One.... Come All....

Please visit, participate, encourage, DONATE time, BLOOD, save lives at the LARGEST BLOOD donation campaign of Bangladesh being organized by the NSU Social Services Club in the Recreation Center.

As usual Quantum Blood Bank will be providing free major BLOOD tests for each donor, along with grouping, and others.

Please encourage everyone you know to join, at least visit, plus encourage the donors, and maybe donate and help save a life.

NSU SSC BLOOD DONATION MAR 11-14
 
- on behalf of the members of NSU SSC

Khan Academy - Free Education Videos!

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by Bangladeshi American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 2,700 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching Mathematics, History, Healthcare & Medicine, Finance, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, Economics, Cosmology and Computer Science.

The major components of Khan Academy include:

• a video library with over 2,700 videos in various topic areas and over 89 million lessons delivered.
• automated exercises with continuous assessment; there are more than 200 exercises, mainly in math, including four challenges and 184 individual modules.
• peer-to-peer tutoring based on objective data collected by the system, a process that will be projected in the future.

Not-for-profit partner organizations are making the content available outside of YouTube. The Lewis Center for Educational Research, which is affiliated with NASA, is bringing the content into community colleges and charter schools around the United States. World Possible is creating offline snapshots of the content to distribute in rural, developing regions with limited or no access to the Internet.

Khan has stated a vision of turning the academy into a charter school:

This could be the DNA for a physical school where students spend 20 percent of their day watching videos and doing self-paced exercises and the rest of the day building robots or painting pictures or composing music or whatever.

You may watch a YouTube video where Salman Khan talks about his academy and vision. You may also choose to download that video using following two options:

Good Quality Video (MP4 format - 50 MB)

Average Quality Video (3gp format - 37 MB)

I thank you in advance for watching and sharing with your friends!

CLEAN NSU Campaign!

NSU Earth Club is going to arrange an environmental awareness campaign CLEAN NSU on the 11th of December, 2011. Everyone is requested to take part in this cleaning program in and around NSU on that day. Honorable Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Hafiz G A Siddiqi and honorable Chair, BoT Mr. Md. Shahjahan will start the program at 10.30 am on that day.

Apart from this, at different locations around NSU, Earth Club will use display boards mentioning environment friendly behaviors to be practiced within NSU campus as well as day to day life like turning off the light while leaving classroom, reduce wastage of water, not littering, reuse and recycle of paper, using mass transport or car pooling, not to smoke, etc.

You are invited to take part in the campaign to make it a success. Thanks.

Honest Student Icon of NSU!

Khandoker Sadiquzzaman Sadik, a BBA student of NSU found around Tk. 50,000 in Boys' Lounge and without any delay he went to the authority with the money.

Dr. Abdul Hannan Chowdhury, Dean, School of Business along with Dr. Mir Obaidur Rahman, Director, MBA and EMBA programs acknowledged his honesty & sincerity and provided token gifts.

We are really proud of such students at NSU.

Registration for Cervical Cancer Vaccination!

The Dept of Life Sciences, NSU in association with GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh (GSK) has successfully organized a seminar titled “Cervical Cancer in Global Perspective and Its Implications in Bangladesh” on 02 February, 2011 in NSU Plaza at 3.00 pm onwards.  There they offered a discount rate @ Tk. 2100 per dosage (whereas the market rate is @Tk. 4040 per dosage) only for NSU student, Faculty Member, and their family members.

You may be aware that Cervical Cancer is one of the biggest killers on caner causing diseases of Women all around the world. This fatal disease claims the lives of 18 women in Bangladesh every day and 1.1 million women globally every year. It is nevertheless to say that community-based education and screening should be the future direction of prevention of controllable cancers. NSU is proud to take an institution based initiative which can improve student’s as well as NSU family’s awareness about cervical cancer and willing for cancer screening and further prevention.

Therefore, the department of Life Sciences, NSU in association with “RUNNINGMATE” (working as Glaxo Smith Kline Vaccination partner) are going to set up a booth on 09 March (Wednesday), 2011 in the open space of NSU premise from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The registration is for successful vaccination activities on cervical cancer on 15 and 16 March 2011 in our NSU premise.

You are cordially requested for your registration.

An Awareness Campaign!

NSU Earth Club is going to arrange an awareness campaign on use of bicycle among students as CLEMON RIDE FOR GREEN with the slogan of CYCLING KORI, SOBUJ BISSO GORI. The program is sponsored by AKij group. In fact, it is a country wide program including road shows (awareness program) in different places (B. Baria Comilla, Feni, Chittagong, etc.) to aware people about climate change, to make people encourage in cycling and aware about the pollution & traffic jam and its impact on our environment.

Presenters:
Phil Buckley, coordinator, Xperime Adventure, UK.
Sk. Jamil Uddin, Director of Akij Group
Date & Venue: 9th of November, 2010 at OAT801 at 3 pm

Honorable Pro-vice Chancellor will attend the program as Chief guest and Prof. Nurul Amin as special Guest.

You are cordially invited to attend the program and contribute to the awareness campaign.