University Grants Commission of Bangladesh chairman SMA Faiz on Wednesday at a workshop urged the universities of the country to use the Apostille platform for online attestation of educational certificates of students seeking higher education and employment abroad.
Mentioning that the foreign affairs ministry has to attest two lakh certificates every month, he commented, 鈥楾heir working hours will be saved if certificate authentication is ensured by Apostille method.鈥�
UGC members Professor Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan and Professor Mohammad Anwar Hossen, foreign affairs ministry additional secretary Syed Masud Mahmood Khundoker and the UGC secretary Md Fakhrul Islam delivered special speeches at the workshop on online verification of certificates of students wish to go abroad with degrees obtained from the country鈥檚 universities.
Presided over by information management, communication and training department director Omar Faruq, foreign affairs ministry consular and welfare director general Shah Mohammad Tanvir Mansur also spoke at the event.
Students interested in higher education have to go to various offices for verification and information. If the certificate is attested by Apostille method, the students can be saved from these sufferings, said Tanzimuddin Khan.
Calling upon the concerned to carry out proper attestation of certificates by Apostille method, Anwar Hossen feared that if the country鈥檚 higher education institutions and UGC were not organised, the administrative work of these institutions would be at risk.
An initiative has been taken to add the universities of the country to the Apostille myGov platform to verify the certificates of students interested in pursuing higher education abroad, said a press release.
Under the Apostille convention, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education, A2I of the Ministry of ICT and the UGC will complete the verification of certificates of students intending to go abroad through the ApostilleMyGov platform, which will be finalised by December, added the press release.
