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New Publication
Year 2008
Dr M Alimullah Miyan
Knowledge Based Area
Development
A Step Towards Community Self-Reliance
Bangladesh is endowed with
people who are to be transformed into human capital through education and
skill development. This can be achieved by adopting development ofs different
localities through spreading knowledge.
Under the Knowledge Based
Area Development, young person from each locality would be given opportunity
to go for higher education in marketable knowledge and skills. The barrier of
financing should be overcome through establishment of Educational Bank(s) for
loans and assistance.
Through active participation
of every educated individual of the society it is possible to break the
vicious cycle of poverty to build up a prosperous country based on knowledge
and skill. This concept, if embraced by the community as a whole, will
strengthen the ongoing drive towards nation building and accelerate the dream
of making Bangladesh a prosperous self-respecting country.
All About KBAD
Year
2007
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Jennifer Hove:
Barriers to
Girls’ Secondary School Participation in Rural Bangladesh.
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Over the last 15 years, secondary school enrolment rates among both boys and
girls have risen dramatically. However, girls’ rates of progression and
completion of the secondary cycle (from grades six through ten) are disturbingly
low – albeit the comparable rates for boys are also low. At grade six there is
near parity between the number of boys and girls enrolled. By grade ten, boys
are significantly ahead of girls in participation in public examinations and
promotion to higher secondary school. Only 13 per cent of girls who complete the
tenth grade transition to the higher secondary grades of eleven and twelve.
There are powerful forces at work within schools, families and the broader
society that dissuade girls from staying in school. Based on interview responses
among teachers, students and parents in four rural schools, this study analyses
why girls drop out of school, and offers policy recommendations to increase
completion rates.
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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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