Relationship between Higher Education and Job Market Demand

ISBN-13: 9783846518991 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str.

Bipasha Dutta

Opis

If we observe the overall direction, Bangladesh is following a trend to move about to a market based economy. But the pace of privatization has been slow in our country and private sector could not achieve expected level of efficiency and lacked proper direction of development. Among the private sectors, banking and telecommunication sectors have been studied to illustrate the demand scenario of job market and three departments from social science faculty of Dhaka University have been centre of attention of the research to know how they respond to meet the employers demand. Public administration and Economics departments of Dhaka University show high and low responsiveness to private sector demand respectively. While Sociology department did not respond to private sector demand, rather they have responded to NGO sector demand. Among these three departments Public Administration is not also fully compatible with private sector need. The study argues social science faculty of Dhaka University has not responded significantly to the private sectors demand because of inefficiencies in the private sector and lack of proper direction of private sector development. This study can help ed

O autorze

Bipasha Dutta completed Master of Development Studies (MDS) from University of Dhaka. She studied B.S.S (Hons) in Public Administration from the same university. Currently she is working in Promoting Democratic Institution and Practices (PRODIP) project at Asia Foundation, funded by USAID, in Bangladesh.