GCCN is the largest and one of the leading Nursing colleges in the private sector of Bangladesh approved by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Bangladesh Nursing and Midwifery Council and University of Dhaka. Established in 2010, GCCN is a successful partnership between Glasgow Caledonian University (UK) and Grameen Health Care Services.
GCCN provides education at international standards along with a culture that promotes personal development. Students are exposed to an environment where they are encouraged to develop their self-confidence and self-esteem as well as scientific knowledge of nursing and health care.
Founder Principal
Professor Barbara Parfitt was the founding Principal of Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing. She came from Glasgow Caledonian University of the United Kingdom in 2010 and served for the college till January 2014.
Starting in 2010 with 38 students, Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing raced to become a thriving and dynamic international educational and training institution operating at its new and own premise with over 900 male and female students. Now the college has an accommodation of 16 classrooms, 11 labs, rich library, international standard educational and training facility and faculty, offering clinical placement, scholarships, job fair, overseas higher education affiliation, research, faculty development, e-learning, various co-curricular activities and own transportation facility and a 700 students capacity hostel. This dynamic institution has already successfully accomplished training and educating more than 900 Nursing professionals since its inception and now excelling in full throttle with widened capacity and facilities at its own premise.
Our vision is to establish a nationally and internationally recognized institution for high-quality nursing and midwifery education in Bangladesh. It focuses to provide young people from the rural area in Bangladesh the opportunity to study at a higher level and so break the cycle of early marriage, pregnancy and poverty while at the same time contributing towards an improvement in both the capacity and the capability of human resources for health. In this way, we believe we can make a contribution towards the health of the poorest communities in the society throughout Bangladesh.
Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing will benefit both boys and girls as recipients of health care services and position them as the major health care workforce of the future by:
● Addressing the shortage of nurses through innovative teaching techniques and the recruitment of rural young women.
● Delivering the national curriculum in a way that focuses on the unique health needs of communities and developing leaders and change agents for the future.
● Creating a sustainable social business model that is transferable to other locations with nurses as key players in providing rural health care.
