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Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)
Background
Established in 1991 as a University College in cooperation with two British universities, Independent University. Bangladesh (1UB) was subsequently authorized under the private University Act 1992 and opened its doors to tlie students in the Spring 1993. As a private University it is envisioned to be free to set its own curriculum, pedagogy and to cooperate with academics and institutions at home and abroad. It is to enjoy institutional autonomy and freedom to teach, conduct research and publish useful information. And it has to be afforded from internal resources: men, money and material.
Mission
The IUB mission to achieve the goals of higher education and of sustainable development of the country in all spheres through a two-way relationship between community and university. It calls for a dynamic three-pronged strategy of (1) learning about progressive higher education needs of the country, (2) development of an appropriate curriculum and (3) universalization of output in terms of quality and standards.
Pedagogy
Three schools: Business. Communication. Environmental Science and Management, today teaches honours degree programme in eleven disciplines which have been chosen by assessment of needs. Subjects offered for undergraduate honours degrees and postgraduate studies and researches are: Accounting. Economics. Finance, Marketing and General Management. Business Informatics. Computer Science. Development Communication. Environmental Management. Land and Water Resource Management (bio-diversity) and Population and Community Health. There is a fourth School, the School of Liberal Arts and Science which teaches courses to provide humanistic and liberal background to students specializing in any of the disciplines. IUB believes that every graduate must have a broad based education and know more than his own subject of specialization. He/she will have some background of culture and communication skills. Today IUB student strength is 515 undergraduates registered as full-time, a faculty of 50. of whom 47 are full-time
and represent nine nationalities. American. Bangladeshi, British. Canadian. Chinese. French. .Indian. Russian and Sri Lankan.
Most recently IUB has launched a joint MBA Course with Maastricht School of Management (MSM) of the Netherlands. In this venture the latter is responsible for fifty percent of the teaching load; and on the home side, the University shares the remaining teaching with a faculty broadly drawn from the Ecole Superieur de Commerce de Paris (ESCP). the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok and Indian Institute of Management. Ahmedabad and Calcutta. They merge the Asian experience in the most distinctive venture in the country.
To ensure quality and standards in teaching and to provide international access to students, the University maintains link relationship with a host of universities and Institutions abroad. Some of those are: (1) University of Warwick. (2) University of Michigan, (3) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). (4) Ecole Superieur de Commerce de Paris. (5) School of Management of the Asian In-
stitute of Technology. (AIT) Bangkok, (6) State University of New York. (7) Maastricht School of Management. (8) Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics. (9) Hamline University. St Paul. Minnesota. USA. (10) Moscow State University. (11) Hawaii Pacific University.
Extension education
IUB has stamped its mark also in the area of Extension and Continuing Education Centre (ECEC) where it has offered a variety of Job specific training and Executive development workshops seminars and roundtables (EDP) to CEOs, senior and middle management personnel of business and industries. The ECEC programmes are offered for on-the-Job skills development as well as for improving employment opportunity or Joo shift at different levels of executive employment.
International
The University has received Breject support from the NFPA and UNESCO; and ac tive encouragement from for eign countries: including China, France. Germany. Rus sia. United Kingdom and the United States for its different activities.
Campus
The rented temporary "Campus" constituting rented premises now occupy six build ings sprawled over four streets of Baridhara provides a modern Ispahan! Composite Laboratory of Physics, Cnemistry. Biology and Environmental Science. The Monem Computer station is equipped, with e-mail. CD drives and Internet, a library built on course support, and a self contained MBA Centre.
A journey ahead
As a development strategy the IUB has met the first three criteria of any institution: (1) It is indigenous. (2) based on na tional needs, and (3) it is sus-■ tainable. Bringing out the first * batch of graduates puts (QB to its acid test visa-vfs the community to which it caters. It' also ushers IUB to a new dawn — into the 21st Century. Also on trial Is the new culture the IUB seeks to promote non-profit approach to comprehensive human development.