<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A number of Bangladeshi universities and medical colleges are set to join an education conference in Dubai next week in their efforts to draw students from the UAE and other Middle Eastern countries, organisers said on Friday.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They said Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni and Deputy Education Minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury would deliver keynote speeches in the three-day Bangladesh Education Forum conference to be launched in Dubai on November 4.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Bangladesh is soon going to emerge as an alternative higher education destination," Chowdhoury was quoted as saying in a statement by Pan Asian Exhibition LLC, which stages the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The junior minister added that thousands of foreign students were currently studying in various universities and medical colleges in Bangladesh and "that is adding to the growing remittance inflow in to the country".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the statement, the event is being supported by Bangladesh's education ministry, University Grants Commission, American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) and Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh (APUB).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The organizers, quoting a research report, said by 2025, Bangladeshi universities, medical, dental and general colleges were expected to serve 4.6 million students and with an average annual cost of $1,000 per year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"This translates to a higher education market size of $4.6 billion in Bangladesh," the report suggested.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bangladesh's higher education sector appears to have emerged as one of the largest in the world with 163 universities, 115 medical colleges and more than 2,500 general and specialized colleges.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"They (universities and colleges) are now ready to attract international students and offer good quality cost-effective education to the students living in the Middle East," the statement said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It said more than 30 million students were now groomed by the country's education sector every year – making it one of the largest education services industries in the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The organizers said Bangladesh Education Forum 2022 was the first of its kind conference and exhibition to promote higher education in Bangladesh to foreign students, to be joined by university owners, academics including vice-chancellors and education consultants, among others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They said until years ago Bangladesh was a student exporter to major education destinations like the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Malaysia and India but now it became a student importing nation because of its quality education at a very affordable price.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most foreign students are coming from a number of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian countries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">"Bangladesh Education Forum will strengthen the country's reputation as an alternative destination for good quality and cost-effective education, help re-position Bangladesh in the global education map and boost education tourism," Chowdhoury said on the eve of the conference.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">A number of Bangladeshi universities and medical colleges are set to join an education conference in Dubai next week in their efforts to draw students from the UAE and other Middle Eastern countries, organisers said on Friday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They said Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni and Deputy Education Minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury would deliver keynote speeches in the three-day Bangladesh Education Forum conference to be launched in Dubai on November 4.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Bangladesh is soon going to emerge as an alternative higher education destination," Chowdhoury was quoted as saying in a statement by Pan Asian Exhibition LLC, which stages the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The junior minister added that thousands of foreign students were currently studying in various universities and medical colleges in Bangladesh and "that is adding to the growing remittance inflow in to the country".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the statement, the event is being supported by Bangladesh's education ministry, University Grants Commission, American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) and Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh (APUB).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The organizers, quoting a research report, said by 2025, Bangladeshi universities, medical, dental and general colleges were expected to serve 4.6 million students and with an average annual cost of $1,000 per year.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"This translates to a higher education market size of $4.6 billion in Bangladesh," the report suggested.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bangladesh's higher education sector appears to have emerged as one of the largest in the world with 163 universities, 115 medical colleges and more than 2,500 general and specialized colleges.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"They (universities and colleges) are now ready to attract international students and offer good quality cost-effective education to the students living in the Middle East," the statement said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It said more than 30 million students were now groomed by the country's education sector every year – making it one of the largest education services industries in the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The organizers said Bangladesh Education Forum 2022 was the first of its kind conference and exhibition to promote higher education in Bangladesh to foreign students, to be joined by university owners, academics including vice-chancellors and education consultants, among others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They said until years ago Bangladesh was a student exporter to major education destinations like the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Malaysia and India but now it became a student importing nation because of its quality education at a very affordable price.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most foreign students are coming from a number of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian countries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Bangladesh Education Forum will strengthen the country's reputation as an alternative destination for good quality and cost-effective education, help re-position Bangladesh in the global education map and boost education tourism," Chowdhoury said on the eve of the conference. 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