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Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Bangladesh

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Bangladesh is one of the most thickly inhabited countries in the world, with its people packed into a delta of rivers that unified into the Bay of Bengal. It shares land borders with India (4142 km or 93.8 percent) and Myanmar (271 km or 6.14 percent) (CIA World Factbook, updated on January 20, 2018). It has achieved economic growth of 7.1 percent in 2017 and becomes one of the fastest growing economies. But, this economic growth will not sustain for long without substantial development of its human capital because “investment in human capital development plays a positive role in economic growth and that human capital is the driver of economic growth and development” (Psacharopoulos and Woodhall 1997). Thus, development of human capital through quality higher education and training is a must for Bangladesh if it wants to ensure sustainable development and growth of its economy. In this context, the present study strives to provide a brief scenario of higher education systems...

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  1. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

    Shakhawat Hossain Sarkar

  2. Department of Accounting and Information Systems, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

    Syed Zabid Hossain

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Sarkar, S.H., Hossain, S.Z. (2018). Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Bangladesh. In: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_499-1

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