Bangladesh is gradually progressing in higher education. Let me here quote Confucius: “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” For last five and eight months , lot of initiatives have been taken by the Government of Bangladesh .The most pertaining questions are contribution of higher education in last five and eight months in the country and whether rise of golden GPA 5 in SSC and HSC level creates any sort of debacle in the education sector? In search of these research questions the study has been taken by the center of Break through thinking in Bangladesh. An opinion pool has been conducted by the Center for Breakthrough thinking in Bangladesh on “Role of Higher education in Bangladesh to raise economic productivity”. An opinion survey was conducted in following cities Dhaka, Comilla, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshah, Barisal, Khulna and Rangpur. Random sampling technique was applied and time period of the study is 1January 2009 to 31 August, 2014.
1203 questionnaires were received September, 2014.Total number of questionnaires were distributed among 1600 person out of which 1203 questionnaires were received. Among the respondents the study has chosen medical students, engineering students, agriculture university students of both public and private educational institutes, teachers from above types of institutes ,guardians of existing students ,bankers of public and private sectors, journalists ,politicians both present govt. supporter and opposition party supporter of the parliament .In the category of others respondents we have taken sample form Lawyers, agricultural scientists, job seekers, industrialists ,women entrepreneur ,non- resident Bangladeshis and business men. However, from received questionnaires, 89 questionnaires were not duly filled up for which these were rejected. Remaining questionnaires are valid and the results of these 1114 responses as well as some other relevant information’s are reported in the following series of Tables:
Comment: From table;2 we observe that about quality education,20% strongly agree while moderately agreed ,25%.Accessiblity of education has been agreed strongly by 42% while moderately agreed 15%.Governmet help is sufficient has been agreed strongly by 27% while moderately agreed 14%.Proper monitoring of UGC has been agreed strongly by 18% while 11% moderately agreed. Regarding the question, industry need based education has been agreed strongly by 12% while moderately agreed by 24%.
Comment: From table;2 we observe that about quality education,20% strongly agree while moderately agreed ,25%.Accessiblity of education has been agreed strongly by 42% while moderately agreed 15%.Governmet help is sufficient has been agreed strongly by 27% while moderately agreed 14%.Proper monitoring of UGC has been agreed strongly by 18% while 11% moderately agreed. Regarding the question, industry need based education has been agreed strongly by 12% while moderately agreed by 24%.
