Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday inked a memorandum of cooperation with East West University to offer three-month-long professional certificate courses.
DCCI president Taskeen Ahmed and East West University vice-chancellor Professor Shams Rahman signed the document on behalf of their respective organisations at an event at the EWU campus in the city, said a press release.
EWU Board of Trustees chairperson and former governor of Bangladesh Bank Professor Mohammed Farashuddin was also present during the signing ceremony.
According to the cooperation agreement, these courses will include entrepreneurship and startup development, sustainable business strategy and ESG reporting, and project management.
Taskeen Ahmed said that DCCI always upheld the spirit of industry-academia collaboration, recognising its importance in building a skilled workforce and supporting the country鈥檚 economic transformation.
He said Bangladesh is a small country with a large pool of population, and every year a lot of fresh graduates enter the job market.
鈥楤ut it is a harsh reality that we are still lagging behind in creating a skilled workforce as per the demand of modern industry,鈥� he added.
He expressed his high hope that the collaboration between DCCI and EWU will play a crucial role in shaping the next generation of professionals, strengthening the private sector, and accelerating Bangladesh鈥檚 journey toward sustainable industrialization and economic growth in the days to come.
Shams Rahman said that with this signed MoC, both East West University and DCCI would be substantive partners in implementing the agreed courses for encouraging entrepreneurship and startup development.
He also said that, being one of the leading universities in the country, EWU always tries to work in tandem with the private sector to create a skilled workforce to cope with the growing demand of the time.
Pro-vice chancellor of EWU Professor Ashik Mosaddik, dean Professor Ahmed Wasif Reza, DCCI vice president Md Salem Sulaiman, and directors Mamnun Quader, Kamrul Hasan Tuhin, and Minhaj Ahmed were also present during the signing ceremony.