Bangladesh Open University

Bangladesh Open University :

After Independence, Bangladesh faced the challenge of meeting the educational needs of mass people. To meet this challenge the necessity for a new mode of education was widely felt. As a sequel to that feeling, the School Broadcasting Pilot Project was launched in 1978. The project was transformed into the National Institute of Educational Media and Technology (NIEMT) in 1983.

NIEMT was later replaced by the Bangladesh Institute of Distance Education (BIDE) in 1985. The success of BIDE encouraged policymakers to take up a major plan for establishing an open university. In October 1992 the Bangladesh Open University Act 1992 was passed in the Parliament.