DHAKA, July 1, 2022 (BSS) - Bangladesh Open University (BOU) Vice-Chancellor 
Prof Dr Syed Humayun Akhtar has said the university will soon launch bachelor 
programme (BA and BSS) for Bangladesh expatriates in the Kingdom of Saudi 
Arabia. 

He made the remarks while speaking at a recent virtual view-exchange meeting 
on the activities of BOU's Nish-2 programme with the Bangladesh Embassy in 
Saudi Arabia, a press release said today.

Humayun said the BOU is going to introduce bachelor programme - Bachelor of 
Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) - outside the country so that 
the Bangladeshi expatriates, who are called remittance fighters, can become 
educated through this programme and can live with dignity there. 

It is possible to increase the country's GDP with getting the remittance 
fighters educated through the BOU programme, he said.

Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary, BOU SSHL's 
Dean Professor Md Jahangir Alam, Dean of Open School Prof Sabina Yasmin, 
Acting Director of Information and Public Relations AFM Mezbah Uddin and 
Deputy Chief of Mission of the Bangladesh Embassy Abul Hasan Mridha, among 
others, spoke at the meeting.