Year 2007
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Sandra Nikolic and John Richards:
What Parents Think of Their Children’s Schools: A Survey of School
Quality Among Parents
in Uttara, Suburban Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Over the last decade, Bangladesh has made
impressive gains in the quantity of education available. As of 2004, there
were 18 million children enrolled in 110,000 primary schools. The majority
attend government schools but a sizeable minority, approximately one third,
attend either private schools where parents pay, nonformal NGO-run schools, or
madrasas. The popularity of these non-government school tyhpes suggests that
parents have concerns about school quality – as well as the availability of
school spaces.
To assess parental attitudes to problems of
school quality, student researchers from IUBAT surveyed residents in Uttara, a
suburb in northern Dhaka. This study reports their findings. The study also
assesses broad strategies for improving education outcomes.
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Year 2004
Dr. M Alimullah Miyan
and Dr. John Richards:
Energy Policy for Bangladesh
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It is hard
to exaggerate the importance of adequate supplies of commercial energy for the future
development of Bangladesh. In May 2004, the Government of Bangladesh released a
draft National Energy Policy, and invited public commentary. The
government report acknowledges the serious shortcomings of present policy and
the dilemmas in designing new policy.
In this third report of the Centre for Policy Research, Dr.
Alimullah Miyan, Vice-Chancellor and Founder of IUBAT – International
University of Business Agriculture and Technology, and Dr.John Richards,
Professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada and Visiting Professor at
IUBAT, respond to the draft National Energy Policy and offer a series
of recommendations. The recommendations cover major issues from export of
natural gas to improvements in the utilisation of biomass fuels.
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