Higher Education In Bangladesh Research Articles

Teaching sociology in large classes

This study attempts to explore a major issue of higher education in Bangladesh that is, problems related to large size classes. The objectives of the study are to identify the problems faced by the students and the teachers; and to find out the ways of teaching effectively in large Sociology classes. This is a literature review article which has investigated the current teaching practices in the Sociology Classes at the affiliated colleges of the National University of Bangladesh. This paper also discussed the issue from the global perspective. It identified that large classes create a lot of problems for the students and the teachers resulting in the lower quality of higher education. Finally the paper concluded that teachers’ training, appointing supporting stuffs and ensuring necessary logistic support can be the possible solution of this great problem.

A Study of Thermal Performance in University Campuses in Urban Context of Dhaka City

Higher education in Bangladesh is growing. Around 3.2million students are enrolled in tertiary level education in the country. Dhaka is the center of this growth. There are around 08 public and 50 private universities operating Dhaka. Among these universities public universities have campuses and most of the private universities don’t have permanent campuses. But as per Private University Act-1992, these private universities are bound to set up permanent campuses. Some of these universities have already set up a permanent campus in and around Dhaka city, others are in the process of establishing new campuses. Under such circumstances, it is necessary to study the thermal comfort parameters of the students pursuing educations as well as a sustainable environment in these built campus spaces in the context of the hot humid compact urban context of Dhaka. So that knowledge from these studies can be utilized to achieve healthy as well as a sustainable environment in future campus design in Dhaka. This paper focuses on thermal comfort parameters in open spaces in terms of wind velocity, ambient air temperature, and relative humidity in the university campus in Dhaka. Three universities are studied, one is Govt and the other two are private Universities.

Quality assurance for private universities in Bangladesh

PurposeCommitment of governments and development partners in achieving both qualitative and quantitative measurements for primary and secondary provisions is the key reason for the development of private higher education (HE) and its rapid expansion in the developing world. A considerable amount of attention towards primary and secondary provisions has produced a large numbers of graduates who are theoretically qualified, but have questionable competences in meeting the needs of the market. This has a significant impact on the quality of HE which is delivered by private and public provisions. The purpose of this paper is to examine quality assurance (QA) mechanism set-up for the private HE sector in Bangladesh.Design/methodology/approachQualitative methods were used because interviewees can express their views in a candid way, with a primary focus on the desired themes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with personnel from the Ministry of Education, the University Grants Commission, students, staff and management from public and private universities. Documents review and secondary data also supplemented.FindingsThe mechanism set-up for QA is yet to mature. Formal arrangements for the governance and regulatory control of private HE provision in Bangladesh are neither sufficient nor up-to-date to help the sector function effectively. The current rules and regulations are suitable only for public HE, but not for the private sector HE.Originality/valueA number of studies have been conducted in the area of private HE in Bangladesh. Only one of them covers QA, and none covers the impact of governance on QA. In the light of this background, this paper is the first of its kind.

Factors Influencing Students’ Decision Making in Selecting University in Bangladesh

This study investigates the factors that influence students’ decisions when choosing a university for higher education in Bangladesh. The study was conducted among students of two private universities in the country. A multi-method approach was adopted in collecting and analyzing data. The responses of the 153 participating students to the questionnaire are primarily described using descriptive statistics, e.g., frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, and rankings. Statistical tools like chi-square and ANOVA test are also applied where necessary. Results of the study indicate that the distance of the university from the students’ home plays an influential role in university choice process in the country. It is also found that there is a significant association between the level of education at which students first consider studying university and their choice about the university. Several other factors: university’s location, cost of tuition, availability of scholarship, students’ mother, friend and visits to campus play an influential role in university choice process.

The Importance of Changing the Traditional Mode of Higher Education in Bangladesh: Creating Huge Job Opportunities for Home and Abroad

The Importance of Changing the Traditional Mode of Higher Education in Bangladesh: Creating Huge Job Opportunities for Home and Abroad

Higher Education in Bangladesh: Quality Issues and Practices

Higher education is one of the most significant parts of the education structure. The progress of present society is subject to a great extent on the quality of higher education. Higher education has huge potential to stimulate affluence in developing countries. Higher education must be standard, well-being and viable progress oriented in these present circumstances. This article aims to investigate the higher education arrangement of Bangladesh, focusing on quality and convenience. The key objective of this study is to discover the quality of higher education at a public university in Bangladesh. The article stresses prevailing complications and challenges confronted by the higher education organisation to give possible solutions; this article provides some recommendations quality and convenience of ensuring higher education system in Bangladesh. As a study area, Comilla University was selected. Qualitative and quantitative methods mutually have been used for investigating the data. It is probable that the findings of the study would be capable to exemplify the general state of higher education arrangement of Bangladesh.

Government Facilitation of Private Higher Education in Bangladesh: The Partnership Approach

This study aimed to identify the key areas in which private universities in Bangladesh require government support, and to analyze the current sectoral context for delineating the optimal nature of required government facilitation. The country's private tertiary institutions are facing restrictive governance strategies at a time when effective government support is vital for enhancing private universities' increasingly important role in nation-building. This qualitative study was based on particular tenets of grounded theory, using open-ended, axial and selective coding for analyzing data collected from open-ended interviews and secondary sources. Interview participants were selected through purposive sampling on the basis of their administrative, policymaking and pedagogical roles in private higher education. The coded results showed the need for government support in the areas of quality assurance, curriculum standardization, research facilitation and faculty development through foresighted governance and policy approaches. The emergent theory of “the Partnership Approach” shows that instead of regulation-focused government interventions, collaborative and supportive governance policies are required for bolstering private higher education in Bangladesh.

The Role of Cash Waqf in the Development of Islamic Higher Education in Bangladesh

The Role of Cash Waqf in the Development of Islamic Higher Education in Bangladesh

Perceptions of Teachers about Differentiated Instruction for English Language Teaching at the Tertiary Level in Bangladesh

Differentiated Instruction (DI) has become a very in fluential approach for the last few decades in the various arenas of education where teachers, instead of lecturing students or instructing in a one-size-fits-all approach, tailor their teaching strategies based on individual learner needs. This unique approach seems to be immensely beneficial as it makes learners independent, confident, enthusiastic, involved, and ultimately better achievers in examinations. The present paper explores the perceptions of tertiary level teachers of Bangladesh regarding DI and the use of this approach in teaching English. Data were collected from 33 English teachers from three private universities using a Likert-scale questionnaire followed by a semi-structured interview with 10 participants. The findings reveal that teachers are aware of DI and its benefits, but their classroom strategies are not congruent with the DI principles to a great extent. Although they create a friendly and non-threatening environment and allow students to choose classroom activities, they cannot differentiate the learning goals, the content, assessment tools, and evaluation for each learner. The paper ends with suggestions for creating a more conducive environment for learning by implementing Differentiated Instruction strategies in higher education in Bangladesh.

Women in leader roles within higher education in Bangladesh

Women have long been under-represented in organization leader roles within higher education. Research has identified, mapped and examined the data, with recommendations for change. The research reported in this article adds to current knowledge, and raises methodological questions by focusing on senior female leaders in higher education in Bangladesh. Using a narrative approach to the construction of professional biographies, the study seeks to explore and understand the complex situations that Bangladeshi women in leader roles encounter and negotiate in their work and careers. This project makes a contribution to the field through not only adding more evidence, but also providing new insights into the contextual context in which women are aspiring to and securing senior roles. In addition, we help to inform the research design agenda by identifying a lack of information regarding the composition of the higher education workforce in Bangladesh, where the data in the public domain are neither sufficient nor robust.

Factors Affecting Higher Education Quality in Bangladesh: An Attempt to Improve Higher Education Quality in Bangladesh through HEQEP.

To meet the globalization challenges raising higher education quality to the world standard is essential. Because Economic Factors, An Era of Competition, Demographic Realities, lack of infrastectural development ,Governmental Political and Legal Challenges, Religious Factors, internal conflicts among educational institutions, corruption etc affect quality of higher education in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Govt. has taken initiatives to develop the quality of tertiary education. Govt. plans to prepare university graduates in such way that they can successfully compete in the context of international knowledge society. The Government prepared a Higher Education Strategic Plan 2006-26, which was fully homegrown with participation of front-line academics from both public and private universities and representatives from think-tanks and the private sector. Accordingly, the Ministry of Education, with the assistance of the World Bank, has undertaken a Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP). The project aims at improving the quality of teaching-learning and research capabilities of the tertiary education institutions through encouraging both innovation and accountability and by enhancing the technical and institutional capacity of the higher education sector. he Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) will comprise of the following 4 (four) components: (i) promotion of academic innovation in teaching-learning and research through an Academic Innovation Fun (AIF) allocating funds on a competitive basis to public and private universities; (ii) institutional capacity building at the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the universities; (iii) connectivity capacity building for universities and research centers through the development of the Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN) ; and (iv) support to the operation of the project implementation unit. The University Grants Commission of Bangladesh is the implementing agency of the project. A HEQEP Unit has been established in UGC for implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation of the activities.

Factors Affecting Cloud Computing Adoption in Higher Education in Bangladesh: A Case of University of Dhaka

In the arena of education, Cloud computing is more apparent technology to ensure availability and sharing of resources through virtualization. To acquire benefit from this technology boon, it is important for an educational institution to identify the important factors that contribute on cloud computing adoption. So, this study has been conducted to identify the factors that will affect cloud computing adoption in educational sector. University of Dhaka is chosen as a case for this paper. Both primary and secondary sources are used for data collection. Seventeen potential factors are taken into consideration, on which survey has been conducted focusing primary sources. After performing multiple regression, variance inflation factor and factor analysis on data of primary source, six factors are identified as core factors to cloud computing adoption, these are- service availability, cloud control ability, resource need, usefulness in education, lack of proper infrastructure, lack of training of staff. These findings can be used as a theoretical base and future development of technological adoption in higher education.

English

The paper aimed to explore the self assessment practices in higher education in Bangladesh with special reference to Department of Business Administration of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. For self assessment purpose the researchers have collected opinion from students, alumni, employer and faculty members on eight areas. In collecting data the study used a semi-structured questionnaire on four point scale . To test the internal consistency the researchers have used Cronbach's (alpha) test of coefficient. The study found that the department is in very weak position almost in all aspects from all assessors. The study suggested to the concerned authority of the department to allocate sufficient fund and logistic facilities for the development of higher education of the department. Key words: Self assessment, higher education, development of higher education.

Accounting for Accountability: A Critical Reflection on the Private Higher Education in Bangladesh

The World Bank has pioneered the concept of “private” in developing countries with the aim of creating economic and social sustainability since the 1990s. This study examines private universities by focusing on the accountability framework in Bangladesh. Using a multi-method approach (a survey of 1,046 students from all 52 universities in the country and policy documents from 1992-2014), the study reveals that weak macro accountability (specifically, a vague regulatory framework, lack of enforcement, government leniency, and corruption) is a contributing factor in the unsuccessful drive for higher growth of private higher education institutions (HEIs). The study also raises a question on the success of the Washington Consensus in a developing country. The findings demonstrate that urgent attention is required from the Bangladesh government and donor agencies (The World Bank, the UNESCO, and the International Monetary Fund [IMF]).

Implementation of optimum binning, ensemble learning and re-sampling techniques to predict student's performance

Educational data-mining is an emerging area of research that could extract useful information for the students as well as for the instructors. In this research, we explore data mining techniques that predict students' final grade. We validate our method by conducting experiments on data that are related to grade for courses in North South University, the first private university and one of the leading universities in higher education in Bangladesh. We also extend our ideas through discretisation of the continuous attributes by equal width binning and incorporate it on traditional mining algorithms. However, due to imbalanced nature of data, we got lower accuracy for imbalanced classes. We implement two re-sampling techniques, i.e., ROS (random over sampling), RUS (random under sampling). Experimental results show that re-sampling techniques could overcome the problem of imbalanced dataset in classification significantly and improve the performance of the classification models. Moreover, three ensemble techniques, namely, bagging, boosting (AdaBoost) and random forests have been applied in this research to predict the students' academic performance.

Self-assessment in higher education: empirical evidence from the Department of Business Administration of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

The paper aims to explore the self-assessment practices in higher education in Bangladesh with special reference to the Department of Business Administration of Shahjalal University of Science and ...

Quality of Higher Education in Bangladesh: Governance Framework and Quality Issues

Ozet: This study is an effort to find out the policy options of higher education as well as students’ perception on specific quality issues of higher education in Bangladesh. This paper is analytical in nature. To attain the objective of the study, 100 master level (MS) students, of Social Science Faculty, Rajshahi University have been interviewed. Respondents were interviewed using semi-structured pre-formulated questionnaire. Secondary sources, moreover, were reviewed to gather input to make this study reliable and valid. The study revealed that the greatest challenge to achieve the standard level quality in higher education is governance related problem. In this research the term governance covers management, policies and practices. There are some rules, regulations and institutional arrangement. Nevertheless, effective implementation of these policies is very rare due to lack of effective governance and professionalism. Furthermore, recruitment and promotion related decisions are not settled on the basis of qualification. In these cases, personal connection, party politics and inter-personal politics play significant role as determinants. Though there are some research works on quality of higher education in Bangladesh, yet it is very difficult to find out which shaded light on the student’s perception about the quality issue of their education considering them as stakeholder or clients. In this backdrop, this study is an effort to find out the students’ perception on specific issues of quality of higher education and offers the assessment of policy options which are supposed to use for ensuring the quality of higher education in Bangladesh.

Environmental studies in higher education in Bangladesh: a case study

Environmental studies in higher education in Bangladesh: a case study

Higher Education in Public Universities in Bangladesh

The key aims of higher education are to generate the new knowledge, explore research works on different social and development issues, anticipate the needs of the economy and prepare highly skilled workers. Throughout the World, universities change the society and remain the center of change and development. In Bangladesh a number of universities both public and private were set up so far theoretically emphasized on unlocking potential at all levels of society and creating a pool of highly trained individuals to contribute to the national development. But in practice these universities are very weak and do not change anything. Better understanding among teachers and students, introduction of modern teaching methods and dedication of teachers and students can improve the culture of higher education in Bangladesh. A proper academic calendar can bring discipline. To make the universities free from the clutches of politics can also improve the situation.

Medium of instruction policies and language practices, ideologies and institutional divides: voices of teachers and students in a private university in Bangladesh

The use of English as a medium of instruction (MOI) in polities across the world has drawn attention of language policy and planning scholars and researchers. Increasingly, research on MOI policy and practice focuses on how macro-level policies are translated into action by ‘actors’ including teachers and students in the micro-context. However, there has been limited research on teachers' and students' language practices and ideologies that potentially reproduce divisive MOI policies for different sectors of education. This article reports a case study involving teachers and students in a private university in Bangladesh to illustrate how national MOI policies provide a framework for actors in the micro-context to construct identities for languages and institutions by means of ‘othering’. Higher education in Bangladesh is divided between the public and private sectors and the divide is marked by MOI – English and Bangla in the former and English only in the latter. Based on our analysis of interview data, we argue that through their language practices and beliefs, students and teachers construct hierarchies of languages and institutions, using the rules of self- and other-representation and thereby perpetuating the macro-level divide. We suggest implications of the macro-level MOI policies and micro-level practices for students' content knowledge and English proficiency development in a globalizing world where English is widely believed to hold immense potential for individuals and societies because of its role in human capital development.