Title :“A Comparative Study of the Quality Between the Education of the National University and That of the Other Public Universities in Bangladesh

The most important, effective, substantial, and crucial factor in creating a trained workforce is higher education. Higher education is more important in Bangladesh since a competent workforce is crucial to attaining Vision 2041’s objectives. In addition, Bangladesh must focus on enhancing higher education in order to meet the international challenge of providing quality education. Therefore, the difficulties relating to streamlining the academic process and offering high-quality higher education need to be dealt with on a priority basis. Particularly, given that nearly 70% of higher education is delivered through colleges associated with National University, impediments and difficulties in offering high-quality higher education in these institutions should be highlighted. Nonetheless, relatively few studies on NU concerns have been done. These untouched academic bubbles need to get a clear attention which will also highlight issues and opportunities present in the academic environment at NU as well as other PUs in Bangladesh.

By contrasting the characteristics of the graduates, logistical and academic facilities, and evaluation systems between the two groups, this dissertation has been prepared with the goal of highlighting the strengths and limitations of the educational processes of NU and PU. According to these perceptions, the current study’s three specific goals are to identify the advantages and disadvantages of the evaluation systems used by NU and PUs to ensure high-quality graduates, to compare the logistical and academic facilities and the environments of PUs and NU affiliated colleges, and to identify these differences.

However, findings indicate that by means of its connected institutions, NU, an affiliating university, produces a significant number of graduates in every year. On the other hand, other PUs is equally important to Bangladesh’s provision and promotion of higher education. Although NU produces the most graduates, it is clear that its graduates are lagging behind those from PU in terms of landing jobs, the type of jobs they land, salaries, and other professional accomplishments. Though graduates from NU and PU are entering the workforce concurrently but there are substantial variations in their academic, logistical, and infrastructural environments that prevent their technical and professional skill sets from developing at the same rate.

Nonetheless, very few studies provide insight into examining these problems from a research perspective. To achieve its goals, the current study adopted a mixed-method approach that included both qualitative and quantitative components. For the current study’s goals to be met, both the qualitative and quantitative phases comprised three groups of stakeholders (ex-graduates, present students, and teachers) from NU and PU. As graduates expressed their thoughts, opinions, and perceptions about the educational environment at their particular institutions, the researcher has a wealth of findings that reflect both the past and present circumstances.

The key findings indicate that graduates’ strengths and weaknesses was determined by the source of their study materials, class attendance, growing of professional skills, taking part in co-curricular activities and so on. PU graduates have found more potential regarding these aspects. By comparing logistic and academic facilities between PU and NU affiliated colleges the current study found significant differences. There have also some similarities regarding water and sanitation facilities, residential facility and internet facility between them. Regarding evaluation system it was revealed that in NU evaluation system there was very limited scope of oral practice since there was only one viva throughout the whole graduation course. It is mostly written-exam based and there was no provision of presentation, field work or internship. The PU evaluation method provided additional opportunity to develop professional skills. In a nutshell, the current study has described the academic environment, identified the positive and negative aspects of NU and PU’s academic processes, and identified some difficulties in ensuring quality education. These findings may be used by policymakers to develop strategies for enhancing the higher education sector.

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