Dear Prof. Mahboob Ali,
Thank you for sharing your thought provoking article. You may be interested to know that some of us with the chairmanship of Dr. A. Majeed Khan have founded an organization named "Committee of Action for Research, Extension and Services" in short CARES. One of the main objectives of CARES is research by being like a virtual University, interlinking efforts of those who are interested in research. Prioritizing and focus is in process, the major areas are in the registered document of CARES.
Regards,
K.M.S. Aziz
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:44 AM, MuhammadMahboob Ali <pipulbd@gmail.com> wrote:
Respected Sir:
Salam.
Hope that you are fine.
I have great respect for you.
I am giving one of my article below for your kind perusal which was published in today's Financial Express at Page:20.
Warm regards.
Your admirer,
Prof.Muhammad Mahboob Ali,PhD
There should be more research works in our universities.Muhammad Mahboob Ali
Knowledge and research based education is a determining factor in a country like Bangladesh. Dissemination of knowledge can create high core competencies and maintain international benchmarking. Bangladesh should ensure knowledge and research based education especially at higher level of studies. Still University of Dhaka and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) are proving their excellence as educational institutes. University of Chittagong is also famous for contributing in the society. Jahangirnagar University and Rajshahi University are also doing good. Some private universities like IUB, NSU, EWU, AIUB, BRAC have also proved their excellence. However, some universities of Bangladesh do not accept higher degrees especially PhD from public universities of Bangladesh. This is true but unfortunate. Irony is that Bangladesh doesn't lack appropriate knowledgeable person but most are not interested in doing research work.
To become efficient and effective personnel with synergy for organisations, professionals in this universe need solid realities of the society. They should act in response to the diverse issues of multi-cultural capabilities and principles. They ought to keep pace for achieving excellence of pursuit despite the fact that distance prevails between those who are the service providers and who are receiving service at the end. This gap can be narrowed down though arranging proper distribution channel of learning. Education quality should be ensured through doing international standard of research work and dissemination of knowledge without hindrance. This will help to accumulate, allocate and distribute knowledge in the global perspective. The axiom of the educational institute should be to pursue knowledge and do research work among the policy makers, researchers, entrepreneurs, business community and civil society. Environment of the educational institute will work as a communicative hub among the world of business community and technology prone people in the global perspective. As such students must refrain from national politics but they may do student politics for welfare of their own. This will help to meet the demand of the current domestic and global turbulent situation through strengthening quality assurance and capacity building of the organisations of both domestic and international arena.
In a programme of Perdana College, Dhaka on 31st March, 2012 Malaysian High commissioner Dato' Jamaluddin Bin Sabeh argued that he has been in favour of opening a branch of UCSI university, Malaysia for last three years. His comment is very much important as in the education sector we should get cross cultural educational institutes. Actually to get knowledge based education not only private or public universities are sufficient. We need high quality branches of educational institutes in Bangladesh through cross border arrangement. Earlier in this country Victoria University, Australia had a campus which was also providing high quality education. But previous government did not allow them to run the educational institute.
In India and Malaysia there are numerous branches of foreign educational universities/institutes. It is unfortunate that some profit makers in the educational sector in the name of study centre are doing misconduct. But for them we should not stop foreign branches of high quality educational institutes. Similar type of offences are being done by some private universities and medical colleges as reported by different dailies. UGC of Bangladesh may take appropriate measures so that cross border quality education institute branches can run in Bangladesh. Prof. Dr. A K Azad Chowdhury, Chairman (State Minister) of UGC is a very dynamic and capable person with high educational excellence of pursuit. Other members of the UGC are Prof. Dr. Atful Hye Shibly, Prof. Dr. Md. Muhibur Rahman, Prof. Dr. Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, Prof. Dr. Abul Hashem, Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtar Hossain. They are also very good academicians. They may address the issue of cross border education so that there is opportunity of education in quality education institutes for higher education in Bangladesh while those who are working as a study centre and not maintaining the quality will have to be driven out. Parameters must be set upon course curriculum, number of PhD faculties, research works, publications, peer reviewed journals, regular seminars, workshops, conferences, symposiums, books/journals in the library, cultural and co-curricular activities. Strong measures ought to be taken against those who are doing false business in the name of providing higher studies such as involvement of any private university or fake study centre. Quality of approved institutes /colleges of national university is miserable and there is none to control the quality as National University already failed to performed it duties.
Currently standard of some private universities is very low. Irony is that some private university possesses land more than one acre and they do not have good quality faculties. There should be a rule that each year at least two research based articles of a faculty must be published in peer reviewed journal. Many faculties in Bangladesh think that they have already finished education so why they should do further research. This sort of perception can be changed if UGC made compulsory rule for publication of research based articles. When more research work will be emphasized then quality education will be feasible.
Innovation along with proper research techniques, managerial skills and applicability of information and communication technology will lead to transformation of excellence.
Innovation can enhance managerial skill and better access to the information which provides an opportunity to explore the idea of originality. Innovative themes will help to gather knowledge in the area of achieving new products and services, fresh schemes of invention, opportunity for latest market scenario, original foundation of delivery, and dazzling performance of classification through brain storming. As such education institutes ought to put emphasis on innovation in quality education. Quality education may be very much constructive for thought provoking ideas, penetrating knowledge management, uniqueness and spread of information and communication technology. Process layout and designing of education should be done in such a manner that rejuvenation will work as a creativity to exemplify a dimensional assembling processes, superb distinct with the extent of deep-seated driving forces will fetch benefits for the participants as well as regional and global leaders and assist to formulate and implement strategies with extra zeal and passion. Knowledge diffusion will craft avenues to develops skills.
Those who are involved in providing quality education in this money centric world must posses high ethical and moral values. Quality education will be able to create ample opportunities for knowledge diffusion to build a distinguished record and provide a guideline for the present and future domestic and global scenario.
Present government may be thanked for their recent decision to give permission to open new private universities. Hope that in each district at least one public university should be set up. Side by side good colleges like Chittagong Government College, Dhaka College, Eden Girls' College may be considered to make full fledged universities. In a country where population is more that 16.8 crore we need more universities. Further we need high quality cross border educational institutes branches in Bangladesh. UGC can compulsorily ask for the faculties to do research work as a mandatory and at least two articles in a peer reviewed journal may be published in each year. Standard of the institutes/colleges under National University is very low. As such present government may set up an inquiry commission to find out how to improve the quality education of the institutes /universities. Expenditure on higher education must be raised by the government. Also philanthropists should come forward to provide donations to public universities. Syllabus should be international standard and suitable to the needs of the industry and class room atmosphere should be improved. Cross border higher education regulations should be prepared by the Ministry of Education of Bangladesh and a special bill may be placed in the National assembly. During the last three years our education minister tried to develop higher education of the country. But without global institutes higher education is not properly feasible for which special steps are required by the government.
The writer is Head of M.H. School of Business, Presidency University (Bangladesh) and Chairman, Centre for Breakthrough Thinking in Bangladesh, email: pipulbd@gmail.com
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