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International Standard University (ISU) aims to provide social service through quality education with moral values. This university ensures its aim to achieve excellence as a seat of learning through devotion, hard work, and sincerity.
We have worked almost round the clock to ensure that the university makes some remarkable progresses during the period of the impasse. With the tremendous support and commitment provided by the Board of Trustees (BOT) and academic and administrative members, we have explored and created various ways to continue innovation and quality pertinent to education and research by collaborating with diverse industries and authorities, such as the Standard Group Ltd, University Grants Commission (UGC), Bangladesh Accreditation Council (BAC) and associated academic institutions and several corporate institutions. We have retained and developed the university's capacity to invest in students, faculty members, and research activities.
We have also supported and nurtured the careers and well-being of the students by creating enormous platforms for career progression, and development to maximise their capabilities; stimulating outstanding research, and innovation that fully support the well-being of students.
a. Engaging top-quality faculty members: The faculty members of the university are well qualified having higher degrees from top-ranked universities at home and abroad. They are innovative and understand the dynamics of changing times.
b. Developing institutional standard curriculum: The curriculum, the backbone of the courses of each department has been so developed as to promote critical thinking and openness for the students to learn. It provides them with the required knowledge and skills to tackle the challenges of the 4th industrial revolution and gives them the confidence and skills to continue to adapt.
c. Industry collaborations: The university has made successful and active collaborations with a range of corporate houses. This helps our students to enhance their capacity in the right direction and to apply their achieved knowledge and skills for career development.
d. Technology adaptation: The campus is fully equipped with modern technology, which has enabled both students and faculty members to get access to the best lab facilities, libraries, journals for being updated.
e. Establishing a research center: The University has established a research center called the Center for Research, Development and Publications (CRDP) for facilitating faculty members to produce cutting-edge scholarly research on national and global scales.
f. Developing Part-time job opportunities: The university has founded the Center for Higher Studies and Career Development (CHSCD) which aims at providing job opportunities for its current students who are financially weak and are also not academically that much sound to qualify for a level of scholarship or waiver on tuition fees that may allow them to pursue their university studies unhindered.
Students who are desirous of having admission into private universities try to find the right university that will ensure them proper education in their desired discipline at a level of cost their guardians can bear. At ISU, we ensure both in a student friendly environment, taken well care of by the authority.
The girl students prefer ISU because they (i) are ensured a safe environment at the campus and (ii) are also allowed 10% additional waiver on their tuition fees.
And also, most of the programmes are so designed that the graduates passing out from the ISU can adapt themselves to their practical life situation in the industry. A good number of courses are being taught by faculty members with industrial background. Moreover, the provision of lab facilities and internship programmes before graduation help acquaintance of industrial environment by ISU graduates. Frequent industrial visits are also arranged for the students of Business, Science and Engineering faculties.
ISU is currently undertaking policy-oriented research in the spheres of business, development, literature, computing research, clothing and textile, and environmental issues in general. These are taking up state functionaries, business corporations, and other key decision-makers in the public, private, and development sectors to develop well-informed and intelligent decisions. The research activities involve base-line research and consultancies, which have been designed to be funded by different public and private agencies, as well as by development organisations. The university is involving in collaboration with other reputable agencies, based in Bangladesh and other parts of the world. In doing so, it maintains local and global collaborations with a wide range of scholarly academia and industries. The day-to-day operations of the university’s research aim to perform under the supervision of Director, of the Center for Research, Development, and Publications (CRDP). Additionally, ISU is focusing on a range of research, for instance, socio-economic development, food security and sustainable development, artificial intelligence, innovative human management processes, and the socio-economic impact of COVID-19.
ISU is shedding light on motivating academic staff and students to involve themselves in research activities besides academic responsibilities. Thus, the university has created a platform at national and international levels with aims at leading scholars, universities, and relevant industries. In doing so, it establishes a theoretical and practical foundation for a high standard of educational process and educational research. ISU regularly offers research training courses and serves as a source of training to develop the capacity and experience of Bangladeshi/ foreign consulting firms. The university has produced three scholarly journals, for instance, the Journal of Business and Development Studies (JBDS), the Journal of English Studies (JES), and the Journal of Engineering and Technology (JET) to facilitate faculty members and students for publishing cutting-edge research works.
The writer is Vice-Chancellor, International Standard University (ISU)
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