North South University and Metlife Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to operate a series of programmes for the benefit of the university’s Researchers and students.
NSU Vice-Chancellor Professor Atiqul Islam and MetLife Bangladesh’s Chief Executive Officer Mr M. Ala Uddin Ahmad, FCA signed the MoU on behalf of their respective sides at a programme at the NSU campus on Wednesday, according to a press release.
As per the MoU, the NSU students will be able to know about internship and working opportunities at Metlife Bangladesh. They will also get the opportunity to work jointly with Metlife Bangladesh in preparing their thesis papers.
NSU’s Director for Office of Research Dr Norman K.Swazo gave the welcome speech at the MoU-signing programme.
Dr Md. Nurul Kabir, Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Accounting & Finance said, “Metlife will offer internships to our students under the MoU and there will be an industry-academia collaboration between NSU and Metlife Bangladesh.”
Describing the slow growth of the insurance sector in Bangladesh, he said only 4 out of 1000 people in our country have insurance. The insurance sector can play a big role in the development of our country.
Mr M. Ala Uddin Ahmad said, “This is the first research we are doing with any outside organisation. The outcome of the research will be for the public interest. When the output of this research will be available, we will arrange workshops and seminars and meet the friends from media.”
During this time he added, “Insurance has huge potential in Bangladesh. We need to pay attention to insurance for the development of our country.”
NSU Vice-Chancellor Professor Atiqul Islam said, “We hope that this MoU will help our present students and researchers, they will be benefited from the agreement. In future, we can provide some other facilities to our researchers and students with such initiatives.
He thanked Metlife Bangladesh for the joint research initiative.
Among others, Dr Abdul Hannan Chowdhury; Professor at the Department of Management, Professor Dr Jashim Uddin Ahmed; Professor & Chair at the Department of Management, Dr Arifur Rahman; Professor of Finance, Mr Jamil Ahmed; Director of Public Relations Office at NSU and Dr Katherine Li; Director of Office of External Affairs were present at the programme.