...An Essay on The Higher Education Sector in Bangladesh: In Need of an Overhaul Submitted to Mr. Bijoy Lal Basu Assistant Professor Department of English University of Dhaka Submitted by Ayman Rahman, Roll No. 29 Section A 21st Batch, BBA Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka It doesn’t matter from what perspective one tries to see the importance of higher education, one thing is certain that its importance can never be undermined. But it is very disappointing that, in Bangladesh, the so called “Higher Education” is in no way up to the standard one expects it to be. This is the result of decades of ignorance and unplanned decisions. So it can’t be solved overnight. It will take a huge amount of positive thinking, planning and executions of these plans to see some real improvements. The first step to improve the quality of higher education in Bangladesh is to know its present state, and that can never be done just by asking a few teachers about it or reading a few articles on newspapers and magazines. By all means it is a much more complex job and deserves delicate and careful handling. Until one can find out the root cause, any proposal for remedy seems useless. The prime factors on which the quality of education in general depends are the quality of teachers, the quality of students and the quality of the teaching courses. The other factors are the academic environment and teaching aides (including library, communication facilities...
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...Quality Assurance in Private Universities of Bangladesh: An Enquiry Into The Desired Level of State Intervention Research Proposal Introduction Bangladesh with its poverty stricken economy coupled with large population base has no choice but to transform its people to skilled human resources through education, in general and higher education, in particular. As the cost of providing higher education has risen to a very high level, it is no longer possible for government to provide higher education to all. Due to budget constraints new universities cannot be established at government initiative. So the government of Bangladesh looked for private participation in this sector as a way out on the account of increased demand for higher education in the country and allowed private universities (PUs) to operate since 1992. However, the operations of PUs for last 13 years has been observed to produce mixed results. PUs could bring about some positive changes in the Higher education of the country in terms of increased capacity for higher education, politics-free environment and responsiveness. On the other hand, there are also serious allegations concerning high cost and poor quality of education in most PUs. The situation became so grave that a high power investigation team formed by the government had to put eight PUs in its black list and recommended for the cancellation of their license to operate as “University” in the country. Against this backdrop, the government...
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...Higher Education in Bangladesh: Prospects, Issues and Limitations Teacher’s Name: Mr. Bijoy Lal Basu Assistant Professor University of Dhaka Submitted by: Inamuzzaman Roll No: 37 Sec: A Batch: 21st IBA, University of Dhaka. Introduction: Education is the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills and developing the powers of reasoning, analysis and judgement. Thus, education promote moral values and helps to create awareness, welfare attitudes, certain skills and behavior as well as a sense of ethical responsibilities among people. Among the different levels of education higher education is the most important and perhaps the most effective part of the education system. In general terms, education beyond the secondary level; especially :education provided by a college or university is defined as higher education. higher education helps to prepare competent, knowledgeable and far-sighted people for assuming various higher responsibilities. Thus, the growing importance of higher education in the modern world can hardly be overemphasized, especially in the era of globalization and in a global environment which is fiercely competitive. And in developing countries like Bangladesh, which going through its steepest precipice, higher education has enormous potential to be the major catalyst of national progress and prosperity. Efficacy of Higher Education in Bangladesh: ...
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...Universities of Bangladesh: The case study of Eastern University Submitted To: Dr. Syed Golam Maola Professor, Department of Management Studies Faculty of Business Administration University of Dhaka Submitted By: Md. Miraj Hossen MBA 7th Batch Stream: HRM Serial No: 52 Roll No: 395 Dept. of Management Studies University of Dhaka Date of Submission: 24th November 24, 2007 Objective of the Report: Following were the objectives of the study--- Broad Objective: The primary objective of the study is to meet the partial requirements to fulfill the MBA degree from Dhaka University under Management Studies Department and to enhance the practical knowledge about the specific area of the education in private universities of Bangladesh. Specific Objectives: To attain the broad objective following specific objectives were pursued: * To attain the knowledge about higher education in Private Universities of Bangladesh * To have better idea about the quality of education in Private Universities of Bangladesh. ...
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...One countries development scale reflects by the education standard of that country.Education plays a very significant role in the economy because education nurtures the communicational and intellectual skills to help people in order to be knowledgeable. “Education is the backbone of a nation” In Bangladesh, expenditure for education is important but like other south Asian countries the expenditure is not sufficient to improve the overall education sector in Bangladesh. Every decision about education and educational system in our country is taken by Ministry of education. Ministry of Education is the head making policies for institution of the Government regarding administration and development of post-primary education sector. Ministry of Education generates policies and programs as well as laws, rules and regulations for the management and administration of post-primary education sector for the development of post-primary to higher education including Madrasah, Technical and Vocational education. Several attached bodies for supervision and management of formal education includes Colleges, Madrasahs, Technical Schools and Colleges, Polytechnic Institutes, Engineering Colleges and Universities. There are about 38412 post primary secondary Schools/Colleges/Madrasahs and 34 public and 68 private universities. It is a great matter of concern that Bangladesh since 1971 have gained independence as well as improved the quality of education vigorously. Although this is a great fact but...
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...Bangladesh on its way to become a middle-income country by 2021 Essay Contents: 1. Introduction : 2. Classification of Countries and What is Meant by MIC: 3. Significance of Becoming a MIC, for Bangladesh : 4. Predictions on Bangladesh Becoming a MIC( International and National Sources ) : 5. Experience of Countries Moving from Low income to Middle Income Status : 6. Recommendations for Bangladesh to Become a MIC : 7. Becoming a MIC( Three Possible Scenarios) : 8. Conclusion : Essay Materials: sHoVoN Still a way to go for a middle-income Bangladesh Author: Fahmida Khatun, CPD Bangladesh’s recent graduation to the World Bank’s lower-middle-income category from a low-income category was only a matter of time. The country experienced steady growth in the 2000s and boosted its per capita income. Its from a mere...
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...Human Development of Bangladesh Topic: Human Development of Bangladesh Subject: Macroeconomics Subject Code: ECO-502 Submitted to: Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed Course Instructor BRAC Business School BRAC University Submitted by: |Sl. No. |Name |ID | |01. |Sigma Sharmeen Khan Prema |141 64 010 | |02. |Rubaiya Binte Mustafa |141 64 005 | |03. |Mahmudur Rahman Polash |141 64 015 | |04. |Md. Mohsin Alam |132 64 001 | |Section: 01 | Date of Submission: 28-03-2015 Letter of Transmittal March 28, 2015 Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed Course Instructor BRAC Business School BRAC University Subject: Submission of report on “Human Development of Bangladesh” Dear Sir, With due respect & humble submission, we the students of M.B.A. Spring 2015, are submitting the report on “Human Development of Bangladesh”. It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that we have completed the report under your kind hearted direct supervision. ...
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...Education Quality of Private Universities in Bangladesh: faculty resources and infrastructure perspective Md. Abu Naser Student ID: 083286085 Master in Public Policy and Governance Program (MPPG) Department of General and Continuing Education (GCE) North South University Dhaka i Dedicated to My Grand-Father and Grand-Mother Late Moulvi Dana Mia Late Asmoter Nessa For their love, encouragement, and sacrifices for the education of their successors…. ii ABSTRACT After deregulation program, the participation of the private sectors is increasing significantly in service sector in Bangladesh. Higher education sub-sector is one of them. As a reform initiative of public sector management government shifted its policy in early 1990s in higher education sector. Earlier public sector had monopoly in the tertiary level of education. North South University is the first private university established in Bangladesh in 1992. Within a short span of time more than fifty private universities have started their function. Though a lot of questions about the quality, mission and vision of these institutions, some are providing world standard education. These quality institutions have prepared a ground to compete each other about the quality of services they are providing. The private universities (PUs) for first time have introduced American system in country’s higher education. Despite mismanagement and profit motive, PUs has a role to reshape higher education to develop competent...
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...technology education at network age population for sustainable development of Bangladesh through human resource advancement Gazi Mahabubul Alam Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. E-mail: gazi.alam@um.edu.my. Tel: +6037967 5077. Fax + 603-7967 5010. Accepted 25 September, 2009 Education is supposed to play a vital role for the development of a nation. Many countries made progression through education. Nevertheless, some of them also failed to retain the development achieved since these countries failed to supply required skilled workforce for emerging economics caused by globalization and rapid change of economic pattern. This now forces policymakers to prioritize the production of skilled manpower that can contribute for sustainable development. The countries that achieved sustainable development have given a high priority to science and technology education in formulating education policy. Bangladesh has no more alternatives in order to gain development, except properly utilizing its population. Bangladesh’s economy and human development could have grown faster than its actual progression in the last 25 years (that is, since independence in 1971), if it had earlier taken substantial steps in educational development. This paper has defined a ‘network age population’ for Bangladesh. This paper also suggests that this population is required to provide science and technology based education with some revision of education policy...
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...INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH MARKETING CASE REPORT COURSE: MARKETING MANAGEMENT MKT: 302 SECTION: 3 DATE: SPRING-2007 PRESENTED FOR MOHMMED ARAFAT PRESENTED BY 1. Sharmin Alam-0210024 2. Maisha Sakura-0210066 3. Amanatullah-0320443 4. Faujia Ferdousy Rahaman-0410074 INTRODUCTION There are two basic types of institutions in Bangladesh. The public sector and the non government sector or the private sector. The nongovernmental universities started their operation during the late 1990 in Bangladesh. Having the act passed of private university establishment in 1992 many Universities has started to boom. During 1990 the number of private universities was twenty however the number reached to fifty with in 2005. In addition the numbers of students are also accelerating day by day. There is a mushroom growth in university establishment in the private sector. However the number is not huge in terms of quality education and standard. Apart from a few non qualifying standard universities, nongovernmental universities are not any point less than the public universities. On the contrary the leading private universities are providing with quality North American standard with a highly educated and skilled faculty members and facilities (Campuses). Among all of the nongovernmental universities, the study focuses of some of the leading and major private universities which are playing a vital role to produce...
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...Education and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh Nashid Kamal *and K.M Zunaid** *Professor and Head, Department of Population-Environment Independent University, Bangladesh **Graduate student, Sydney 1 Abstract: In Bangladesh the latest BDHS, 2004 finds that only twenty percent women work for cash. Among them only 48 percent are able to spend their money on their own, the rest are dependant upon spouses or other family members to take joint decisions on spending. Defining this variable as a measure of empowerment, this analysis investigates correlates of empowerment using logistic regression analysis. The model finds that marital status is the most significant predictor of empowerment in Bangladesh. Unmarried women are six times more likely to be empowered. Secondary education is another major determinant of empowerment, along with the woman’s mobility and decision making scores. The paper recommends strengthening women’s secondary education in Bangladesh and also taking measures to encourage late marriage for women. 2 INTRODUCTION The participation of women in the labour market in Bangladesh has increased in the recent years. One of the major areas where women have found employment has been the garment sector. This industry employs around 10 million persons directly or indirectly, of which ninety percent are women workers. In the 1993-94 BDHS the percentage of women who reported cash income was only 14.4 percent. After the garment industries were set up in Bangladesh...
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...Structure of the Education System | | Education in Bangladesh has three major stages-primary, secondary and higher education. Primary education is a 5-year cycle while secondary education is a 7- year one with three sub-stages: 3 years of junior secondary, 2 years of secondary and 2 years of higher secondary. The entry age for primary is 6 years. The junior, secondary and higher stages are designed for age groups 11-13, 14-15 and 16-17 years. Higher secondary is followed by graduate level education in general, technical, engineering, agriculture, business studies, and medical streams requiring 5-6 years to obtain a Masters degree. | In the general education stream, higher secondary is followed by college/university level education through the Pass/Honors Graduate Courses (4 years). The masters Degree is of one year's duration for holders of Bachelor Degree (Honors) and two years duration for holders of (Pass) Bachelor Degree. Higher education in the technical area also starts after higher secondary level. Engineering, agriculture, business, medical and information & communication technology are the major technical and technological education areas. In each of the courses of study, except for medical education, a 5- year course of study is required for the first degree. | | Different Steams in Education | | Primary level education is provided under two major institutional arrangements (stream)-general and madrasha, while secondary education has three major...
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...Journal of Education for International Development 2.2 July 2006 THE GIRLS' STIPEND PROGRAM IN BANGLADESH Janet Raynor, University of London Institute of Education Kate Wesson, Open University, Milton Keynes Citation Raynor, Janet, Wesson, Kate (2006). The Girls’ Stipend Program in Bangladesh. Journal of Education for International Development 2:2. Retrieved from http://www.equip123.net/JEID/articles/3/Girls’StipendPrograminBangladesh.pdf on [insert month] [insert day], [insert year]. Abstract The Female Stipend Program (FSP) was created in 1982 in Bangladesh to help increase the enrolment and retention of girls in secondary schools. Implemented initially in six areas only, the program was so successful that it was extended in 1994. This paper, based on a desk study of the FSP for the Bangladesh office of the Department for International Development to evaluate the program’s effects, is particularly pertinent for other developing countries seeking to support girls’ education as part of the effort to meet EFA and Millennium Development Goals. Introduction Since its independence, Bangladesh has addressed girls’ education primarily as a means of readying girls for “enlightened motherhood.’ (Chanana, 1994) or to enter professions thought to be suited to women. The 1974 Qudrat-e-Khuda Education Commission Report asserted that ‘women’s education should be such as to be of help to them in their domestic life’, and stressed that subjects such as ‘child-care, the nursing of...
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...Fairness and transparency in university admission policy: Are the public universities in Bangladesh making a shift? An editorial piece Submitted by Raihan Mahmood Kadery MARIHE-2 Beijing Normal University Submitted to Prof. Lauren lla Misiazek Faculty of Education Beijing Normal University 1|P age Fairness and transparency in university admission has recently become a burning issue in civil society, higher education community and even parliament in Bangladesh. Public universities in Bangladesh have been highly criticized for admitting students in different social sciences and arts departments who are not motivated enough to continue in those departments and later drop out themselves. Those departments i.e. political science, history, literature, philosophy and so on, which cannot create enough employment opportunity in the labor market of Bangladesh, therefore have to continue their programs with almost half of the empty seats students have dropped out. Admission policies in public universities have therefore been blamed as not to be transparent due to its failure to identify the most potential and motivated students, and not to be fair as well because the better motivated students may not get the admission by competing with those better performed students who take the admission but drop out later. Public universities are currently under pressure from stakeholders to make their admission process more transparent and fair by addressing the above mentioned issues. ...
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...Role of local Government ministry In Bangladesh economy Submitted to Shahnawaz Mohammad Rafi Faculty of Economics American International University-Bangladesh Submitted by Islam Md. Ashraful 09-14107-2 Mow Farzana Sultana 09-18984-2 Dewanjee Tushar Kanti 09-13918-2 Md. Faisal Al Imran 09-13998-2 Imtiaz Ashfaq 09-13932-2 Islam Md. Rashedul 09-14203-2 Role of local Government ministry In Bangladesh economy Bangladesh is a poor country. Most of the people live below the poverty line. Our GDP depends on Agriculture and industry. As a newly independent (1971) country Bangladesh is struggling with huge population, low per capita income, mass poverty, unemployment and underemployment, illiteracy, child labor, malnutrition, corruption, and related social problems. The economy of the country is poor and based on the rural agricultural sector, but natural disasters - mainly floods, affects the economy annually which delays economic progress. Rural-urban disparity in terms of per capita income, consumption, education, health facilities, and physical infrastructure is an important developmental issue in Bangladesh. The Government of Bangladesh and a significant number of non-government organizations (NGOs) are working to improve the socioeconomic conditions of rural poor people of the country. To improve the economic development of the country the local Government ministry should work for it. Bangladesh economy depends on some several sectors...
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