Higher Education in Bangladesh (Focus Writing for Bank and BCS)

 

 Bangladesh is one of the most populated country in the world. There are 16 core+ population in this country.

 

Higher Education is considered a very significant area for any country's socio, political and economic development. Throughout history universities have played a very important role in generating and disseminating knowledge, much to the benefit of human beings and human civilizations. As creators and purveyors of knowledge, the universities contributions are widely accepted in the societies and seldom require any elaboration.

However, with the advent of globalization, the communication revolution and the emergence of the neo-liberal economy as the dominant economic ideology, universities are now undergoing rapid transformations. Massive privatizations is now taking place in the education sector in place of only state-owned initiatives. Curriculum is changing in order to accommodate state of the art scientific research and innovations.

Concomitantly, there are transformations in classroom pedagogical techniques also. Quality assurance has become a major issue as universities are ranked nationally, regionally and globally.

Higher education in Bangladesh is in a state of flux while responding to the challenges of globalization in a local way. The privatization policies of government in line with the neo-liberal economy have resulted in mushrooming growth of new universities day in, day out that are mainly concentrated in larger cities of Bangladesh. Public universities are also being allowed to open profitable part-time  or evening programmers to meet the growing demands of the students. The positive side of these developments is that it could control the outflow of capital to foreign countries keeping the students in Bangladesh.

If the higher institutes of learning in third world countries like Bangladesh do not act with serious urgency, they would be on the wrong side of the rapidly widening knowledge and technology gap. The universities of the developing world like Bangladesh lag far behind, not just because of the shortage of resources lack of knowledge, and mind-sets of the teachers and administrators are responsible to some extent.

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