ITEE to facilitate local IT students

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ITEE to facilitate local IT students
BSS, Dhaka

Japanese government is planning to hold Japan's Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) here to facilitate the local IT students and professionals to take part in the ITEE.

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) told BSS that this facility would create job opportunities for Bangladeshi IT professionals in Japan as well as would help the country implement its digital Bangladesh programme.

The ITEE is a national standardized examination of Japan for their IT professionals, attended by five to six lakh IT students every year. In Japan, every IT student must pass the ITEE examination to get an ICT related job.

As first step of initiating holding of ITEE here, JICA with the help of Science and ICT Ministry will hold a trial test of 'ITEE' in the capital on October 30 next.

Though Bangladesh IT professionals have already gone a long way and the country is stepping towards building digital Bangladesh, there is yet any standardized examination for the IT professionals in Bangladesh, JICA Representative Takashi Ikeda told BSS on Friday.

JICA has taken the initiative to recognize the current skill and capacity status of local IT professionals for helping the government in building digital Bangladesh, he added.

The ITEE would also help Bangladeshi IT professionals to get job at reputed Japanese ICT firms and industry directly from here, he said.

Besides, if the local IT professionals can make good score at the ITEE, Japanese ICT entrepreneurs will be encouraged more to invest in Bangladesh, JICA representative said. Apart from Japan, the Japanese government holding the examination in 11 other Asian countries including South Korea, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and India. As per the Bangladesh Computer Council recommendations 300 students of Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology,(BUET), Jahangirnagar Univeristy, United International University, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology and some IT professionals will sit for the trial test on October 30.

Ikeda said the Japan government would initiate the ITEE permanently and regularly in Bangladesh if it will get satisfactory result from the trial examinations.

JICA will give awards to six participants who will score highest numbers in the trial test and the person who will become first among them would visit Japan under the sponsorship of Japanese government.