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Higher Education in Bangladesh

Change should start with syllabus

Says German professor

Staff Correspondent
In Bangladesh, people have to be convinced that there must be a change in higher education system and the first change has to come in syllabus, a German educationist says.
"Bangladesh's syllabus is very traditional. Students follow linear education model.
Somebody studying chemistry
just knows the subject and nothing else," said Professor Marie-Louise Klotz, president of Rhein-Wall University of Germany. But linear education is not enough, it has to be interdisciplinary; a student of chemistry needs to know about environment, health, legal issues, business etc, she feels.
This helps the students know the interrelations between the subjects and its proper application in everyday life; education has to come in a complete package
which is absent here, she said.
Dr Klotz was in Dhaka to discuss technical collaboration with several public universities FROM PAGE 5
in Bangladesh. Rhein-Wall University is already having such collaboration with key Bangladesh universities like Buet and Dhaka University.
"At the same time, faculties have to learn the modern way of instructions, "she said.
"They have to learn problembased teaching where students are given specific problems to be solved in innovative ways. The students have to learn in teams and teachers have to know how to make it happen.
"When I visit laboratories in Bangladeshi universities, I find machines all covered up. The labs are not well organised. So what I feel is, the change must come from the syllabus to faculties to students to laboratories."
The faculty members have to
attend more conferences, get hooked to education networks, visit foreign universities and education fairs. And they have to visit not only education fairs but also business fairs to get to know the demand ofbusiness, the professor observed.
"You see, even Germany is changing its system over time. For example, we had no master's or bachelor's degrees. We only had diplomas," Prof Klotz said.
"But then since the whole world follows bachelor's and master's programmes, we also changed our system for which we had to go through a seachange in our education system."
Research has to be more society oriented, she pointed out. For example, Europe has a research programme called Horizon 2020. The idea is that research has to be done for society's goal; products
and business plans have to come out of research.
The research teams should have both researchers and representatives from companies, she said, adding that companies would generate demands and research teams should generate results.
Suppose the company might say there is a need for special kind of chairs for the disabled. The researchers will then achieve that. The companies should give vision and the scientists should innovate. That's how it happens in Germany, she said.
"We also think how to generate funds for higher education. It's not the government only. In many countries, fees from students and company contributions constitute a great portion of higher education funds. Bangladesh can also think in that direction," she observed.