Bangladesh’s 10 Minute School wins another award

DHAKA: The 10 Minute School and its founder Ayman Sadiq on Sunday won the best e-learning award from the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA).
The competition is organized annually in a bid to boost regional cooperation in information and communication technologies.
The school teaches more than 150,000 students online throughout Bangladesh for free. Sadiq, recently won the queen’s young leaders award 2018, which recognizes exceptional young people from across the Commonwealth of Nations.
A graduate from the Institute of Business Administration, Dhaka University, Sadiq said he established the school to overcome the prohibitive cost of a good-quality education.
“I want to make the 10 Minute School a one-stop solution for every branch of education,” he told Arab News.
“My first and foremost concern is to overcome the economic and geographic barriers of quality education, so all students in the country can have easy access to educational content.”
Since its launch on May 17, 2015, the school has already served more than 5 million Bangladeshi students.
“I hope from next month to provide online education coaching to 450,000 students every day. It will create a revolution in the virtual education system,” said Sadiq.
“At present, we provide two interactive live classes six days per week. Apart from school and college syllabuses, we also provide life-skills education, including coaching on software applications and uses, presentation skills, CV preparing and so on.” Every day, around 15,000 students receive live coaching from the virtual school.
“Such innovative initiatives are highly encouraging for people, and will make a strong footprint in changing society,” said Prof. Dr. Muhammad Zahidur Rahman, chairman of the computer science department at BRAC University.
The school is supported and sponsored by the government’s information and technology division, and private mobile phone operator Robi Axiata.

Bangladesh’s 10 Minute School wins another award