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National Education Policy 2010 and Higher Education in Bangladesh

National Education Policy 2010 and Higher Education in Bangladesh
Md.Selim Reza

Bangladesh Government passed the “National Education Policy 2010” under Ministry of Education. This Policy had 28 chapters and 3 Annexures. There may be a vast discussion on this policy but I want to discuss about the implementation and evaluation of the policy.


This policy has been passed since more than 5 years back. There should be an evaluation of this policy to understand the effectiveness of this policy. In Chapter 8 of this policy “Higher Education” has been discussed. The aims and objectives of higher education are alright with the provisions of growing up free thinking, creative, humane citizens. 


The most important provision among them is to build up citizens who will possess scientific, secular, liberal, humane and forward looking mindset. Another aim of higher education is innovation of new areas of knowledge through cultivation, research and creativity.


This policy also suggested strategies to attain these goals stated in the policy. The strategies suggested updating the curricula and syllabus of higher education to meet international standards. Among the strategies two important strategies are Research both for students and teachers and another one is Scholarship and academic bank loans at soft terms.
                                    

                               Photo: National Education Policy 2010


Already 5 years have been passed since the adoption of this policy. Time has been come to evaluate the policy how far the strategies are implemented.


The Government provided scholarship is too much low comparative to the demand. For example, the Jahangirnagar University authority gives only one hundred and few taka per month as scholarship for graduation level students. Is it enough to meet any demand of meritorious or poor students? It can be easily imagine that what will be state of other Universities outside Dhaka. There are many corporate sectors in Bangladesh as some private banks offered scholarship for higher education. Dutch Bangla Bank provides 3000 taka monthly.


The Government should pay heed in this regard to increase the amount of monthly scholarship of the Department and University as per merit or yearly result. At least the monthly scholarship to meritorious student should be increased as 3000 taka.


And the suggestions of academic loan in soft terms are yet to be implemented. There are hardly few banks who give academic loans for higher study in the country. Even one or two private banks offer this loan the interest rate is approximately 18-20 percent. And the procedure is also not easy.


A separate student’s bank should be established for students to reorganize student’s financial activity from a separate bank as like as “Bangladesh Krishi Bank”. Or both the state owned banks or private banks should make obliged to make provisions for soft terms academic loans for students within single digit interest rate.


There are many students who are very poor and meritorious but failed to avail any private Bank scholarship or manage tuition besides his campus premises suffered a lot of financial crises. 


Though the student avail the department scholarship it failed to meet the demand as the yearly stipends stands only a few thousand. Whereas a student’s monthly costs is around five thousand taka what would be the value of yearly a few thousand taka scholarship money.
The research fund allocated is not sufficient to grow up competent researchers. 


While foreign Universities allocated million dollars on research, our public Universities fall shortage of research fund to conduct research. Education budget allocated as 170 billion taka last year. The allocation for conducting research should be increased to meet international standards. 


A different research allocation should be made. Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BDREN) works under University Grants Commission. BDREN only works with the IT infrastructure and network development. It is necessary to build up network. But more important is to allocate or establish a separate research entity to gear up research activities in University level. The government should help to establish private research firm to strengthen research activities for higher education.


National Education policy 2010 is an important peace for further improvement of our education sector. But the proper implementation should be ensured of this policy to get the actual and expected benefit from this policy. 
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