Muhammad Yunus made chancellor of UK varsity

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Muhammad Yunus made chancellor of UK varsity

Muhammad Yunus made chancellor of UK varsity

Last Updated: Monday, July 02, 2012, 15:01

Muhammad Yunus made chancellor of UK varsity London: Nobel Peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who pioneered the concept of micro-finance and Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, will be the new Chancellor of the Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK.

He succeeds Lord Macdonald of Tradeston, who has completed a distinguished five-year term of office, the university said.

University Principal and Vice Chancellor, Professor Pamela Gillies said: "The University is truly honoured and delighted that Professor Muhammad Yunus has accepted our invitation to become Chancellor. Professor Yunus and the University have a shared commitment to promoting educational opportunities for talented young people from the most difficult of circumstances".

"He has pledged his inspirational leadership in support of the University's undertaking to harness our intellectual, social and emotional capital and collaborate with others to find solutions to some of society's most pressing challenges," she added.

"The whole University community warmly welcomes our new Chancellor, one of the world's outstanding thought leaders," she said.

Accepting the invitation to take on the role of Chancellor, Yunus said: "I look forward to building on the fruitful relationship that has already been established and has produced benefits which are helping to improve the quality of life for people in both our countries."

Yunus already has a well-established working partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University.

In March, he announced details of a new charity organisation, the Grameen Scotland Foundation, at the university.

The Foundation, supported by the Scottish Government, is the cornerstone of a microfinance bank branch in Glasgow designed to alleviate the economic, health and social inequalities in some of Scotland's poorest communities, the university release added.

It will be precisely modelled on the Grameen Bank, which was founded in 1976 by Yunus in Bangladesh and now operates in 100 countries, including the US.

In 2010, GCU opened the Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing in Bangladesh to help bring nurse and midwifery training to an international standard in a country which is desperately short of nurses.

GCU set up the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health the same year, which researches the impact of microcredit on the health and wellbeing of communities in Scotland and overseas.

Yunus, who was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters of the university in 2008, delivered the inaugural Magnusson Fellowship Lecture, an annual event which was established in memory of GCU's late chancellor Magnus Magnusson, who was succeeded by Lord Macdonald in 2007.

PTI

[hinduguy]

Good to see him rehabilitated at last.

[PlanetSoldier]

Great news...hope hasina will now start serving (oiling) Dr. Yunus with wine and potato chips to at least win a doctorate (not a bad award for hasina instead of Nobel ) from Caledonian University.

Good to see him rehabilitated at last.

Not rehabilitated rather honored...if tongue is not capable of operating in manner, don't use it everywhere. Dr. Yunus in no sense is displaced, he started Grameen Bank, he wasn't employed there.

[hinduguy]

Great news...hope hasina will now start serving (oiling) Dr. Yunus with wine and potato chips to at least win a doctorate (not a bad award for hasina instead of Nobel ) from Caledonian University.



Not rehabilitated rather honored...if tongue is not capable of operating in manner, don't use it everywhere. Dr. Yunus in no sense is displaced, he started Grameen Bank, he wasn't employed there.

Well, nobel prize was honour. This is a job he got after he was kicked out from last job (based on some technical ground like age..). So he was kind of jobless, hanging around and giving lectures here and there. His foray into politics was non starter.
So, rehabilitation is the only one I can think of now.
I dont use tongue to type.

[Skull and Bones]

That guy deserves it, i'd say the university got honored by having him as a chancellor.

[Luffy 500]

Oh no, now a certain someone will not spare a ounce of state resource to become chancellor of a foreign university.

[Loki]

Well, nobel prize was honour. This is a job he got after he was kicked out from last job (based on some technical ground like age..). So he was kind of jobless, hanging around and giving lectures here and there. His foray into politics was non starter.
So, rehabilitation is the only one I can think of now.
I dont use tongue to type.

Age as they claim.

There are guys older than him holding positions. Even the finance minister is older than him

His removal from Grameen Bank was undoubtedly a political one.

[hinduguy]

Age as they claim.

There are guys older than him holding positions. Even the finance minister is older than him

His removal from Grameen Bank was undoubtedly a political one.

Well there are two sides, technically he should not have continued, but his removal is political no doubt.
BTW most enterprenures (social or otherwise) like to continue because they feel protective of their baby. I guess yunus fell into that trap.
Offtopic, but I can draw parallel with another guy Verghese Kurien, who helped increse milk production in India (via Amul brand), but hanged around too long.

[PlanetSoldier]

Well, nobel prize was honour. This is a job he got after he was kicked out from last job (based on some technical ground like age..). So he was kind of jobless, hanging around and giving lectures here and there. His foray into politics was non starter.
So, rehabilitation is the only one I can think of now.

Mental rehabilitation is the thing you badly need first before commenting and thinking about him.

I dont use tongue to type

So, you express yourself through typing, sorry to unknowingly hurt a dumb .

[hinduguy]

Mental rehabilitation is the thing you badly need first before commenting and thinking about him.



So, you express yourself through typing, sorry to unknowingly hurt a dumb .

I dont vocalize while typing as well, whats wrong with you?
BTW rehabilitation is not specifically related to medical condition, I think you are unnecessarily agitated.

[asad71]

O my my! Hasina is not going to like this.

[Loki]

O my my! Hasina is not going to like this.

Who cares?

[baldFish]

its sad that not even once was dr yunus was invited to any prominent university in bangladesh for lectures, no wonder those universities are pot holes of feces

Who cares?

half of bangladesh does, since they blindly vote for BAL

[wiseman]

Muhammad Yunus made chancellor of UK varsity

Congratulation. God bless you. We are proud of you.

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its sad that not even once was dr yunus was invited to any prominent university in bangladesh for lectures, no wonder those universities are pot holes of feces

Who told you that? He has in the past. It's just that if he does become a chancellor in a Bangladeshi university now, the government will harass him for sure.

He made the right choice.

And I salute the man.

half of bangladesh does, since they blindly vote for BAL

Not that much. It's around 15-20% consisting of die-hard ALers. Probably less.

No one really comprehended that Hasina would take such an extreme stance against him.