| Description of
the project:
To provide computer programming tools and techniques to low income group of students completing 12 years of Schooling attaining at the level of Higher Secondary Certificate with brilliant result in their carrier to form a nationwide pre-qualified assemblage in software development activities.
Brief project summary:
After successful completion of the computer literacy programme top ranked students completing their 12 years of schooling and attaining the level of HSC (Higher Secondary Certificate) would be able to participate in this project. Provisions will be kept for accommodating new students with high national ranking in HSC from country wide selection. Participants enrolled
in this project could take the benefit of IT based
education including learning of programming tools and techniques from popular programming languages. With assistance from
dirrefent donors, the project would like to take the challenge to educate this community students towards a six months learning process through providing lessons from programming languages, like Visual C++, Visual BASIC, Java, SQL and Visual Foxpro who could barely have the chance to educate themselves.
After being affiliated by the Bangladesh Technical
Education Board in 1996, up until now this project has produced 6 batches with 20 students in each batch.
Providing basic computer programming knowledge has certainly elevated aspirations in the community and produced a group of
practically programme oriented personalities forming useful asset to the job seekers. These students who could barely leave by their hand to
mouth and never be able to educate in this highly
sophisticated field of education technology are
preparing themselves for global job market. Also, these students are being made ready for professional collaborative computer-based activities by engaging themselves in software development industry. If this project sustains for a longer period, it would produce potential
upgradation in human resource management
by creating IT based knowledge group in the
community.
Objectives and innovation:
Aim of this project is to prepare these students at a level so that they can assist in different software
development houses in this developing society with making a substantial contribution towards forming a large group of IT base population, who in terms of time could become specialized programmers. Students from Sub-Urban town at Mirpur located nearly 20 Km away from the Dhaka city centre covering a population base of more than 3 millions would become a focal point of IT resource in the country. Nearby area of Mirpur
has large number of students who could not able to afford higher level of computer education. The project is to prepare a target group of
software-based community and abbreviating the gap as second phase of a three phase project. A target group of 40 students in a 3-day per week class for six months would cover 800 students
in 5 years lifetime of the project from October 2001 to September 2006. The concealed idea is to prepare these students towards the third phase of the project where they could avail some collaborative programmes from institutions furtherancing software development activities/ distance education/ study exchange
programmes.
There are few other institutes engaged in similar
activities, but very few are thinking of accommodating this low income group of the community and providing them with a internationally recognized curriculum at subsidized rate.
A dedicated knowledge based community is developing rapidly and preparing this community peoples with pragmatic hierarchy of IT platform through computer related elaborate programming tool and techniques would ultimately upgrade the primary foundation of software industry in the country. This could be a bright lesson to other community development NGOs to encourage them in producing other forms of education.
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