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Bangladesh and the United Kingdom have expressed optimism about expanding cooperation in education, skills development and employability. Senior officials from both countries discussed opportunities for collaboration on the sidelines of the Education World Forum 2026 in London on Wednesday. Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Hoque Milon and Adviser to the Prime Minister Mahdi Amin held a meeting with Jonathan Ledger, International Education Strategy Delivery Lead at the UK Department for Business and Trade, on the sidelines of the forum. Senior representatives from Pearson, Cambridge Partnership for Education, and UK-based skills and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions also joined the meeting. During the meeting, the Minister and the Adviser highlighted the government’s priority to deliver quality education, with a particular focus on enhancing students’ employability, making them job-ready, strengthening industry-academia linkages, and developing demand- and market-driven curricula and TVET systems. The UK side shared its experience of working with different countries in line with their respective national needs and priorities.

UK’s Minister for South Asia, the United Nations and the Commonwealth Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon on Thursday reinforced the UK’s commitment to deepening bilateral relations with Bangladesh as he left for London concluding his 3-day visit to Bangladesh. In a busy programme of meetings and visits to places, the Minister reinforced the UK’s commitment to deepening cooperation with Bangladesh across a wide range of issues including trade, security, climate change and the Rohingya crisis. Lord Ahmad, who is also the UK Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, held meetings with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen and Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, as well as with representatives of civil society organisations and the humanitarian sector. Also read: UK MoS calls on PM, finds common ground on issues In his meetings, Lord Ahmad discussed the path to Bangladesh’s landmark graduation from Least Developed Country Status, which is due in 2026.

British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson on Monday said Bangladesh and the United Kingdom (UK) can form a great partnership to lead global efforts to tackle climate change noting that climate change is the defining issue of their time.