Dhaka University Pro-Vice Chancellor (Administration) Prof. Dr. Muhammad Samad joined an international online workshop on “Fighting against COVID-19 in Campus and Online Teaching during the Outbreak” today 20 May 2020 and delivered a key-note paper on “Make Campus Immune to COVID-19 and Start Academic Initiatives”. South & Southeast Asian University Network (S&SE ASIAN UN), Yunnan University, China has organized this online workshop. Four universities of Bangladesh including Dhaka University and 8 other universities of South & Southeast Asia participated at this workshop. The S&SE ASIAN UN is a platform of 57 universities of South & Southeast Asian 12 countries. The countries are- China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Samad appreciated the initiatives taken by S&SE ASIAN UN to overcome challenges and difficulties during the outbreak of COVID-19. Terming this workshop as very significant and timely he stressed the need for strengthening online infrastructures, arranging training programs for faculty members and providing internet facilities to students free of cost or with subsidized rate for online teaching during this COVID-19 outbreak.

He urged the universities of South & Southeast Asian region to enhance mutual cooperation to face the challenges of COVID-19 pandemic and ensure an uninterrupted online teaching system.

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(Mahmood Alam)
Director Public Relations Office
University of Dhaka