Higher Education in Bangladesh
Higher Education in Bangladesh
Higher
education system in Bangladesh has a long way of more than one hundred and
fifty years of intellectual development. There are 35 government, 79 private
and 3 international universities. At the higher level, universities are
regulated by the University Grants Commission. The colleges providing higher
education are under the National University. Although the number of government
and private universities and colleges has been steadily increasing since
Bangladesh gained independence in 1971, the enrollment completion rates are
still very low. Because of limited number of seats in public universities and
high tuition fees charged by the private universities, access to university
education is rather limited. In the late 1990s the government gave priority to
human resource development and emphasized "Education for All" as a
target. Recent five year plans provide for a larger proportion of national
budgets for opening additional colleges and universities especially in the area
of medicine, science and information technology. The Bangladesh National
University, to which many hundreds of colleges and affiliated, is being
modernized and revamped. Thus the higher education system in Bangladesh
developed periodically with vision and meeting demand of time. Private higher
education also developed simultaneously saving foreign currency and ensuring
total human development. (Words : 200)
