BUBT holds workshop on national qualification framework

The institutional quality assurance cell (IQAC) of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) held a workshop on implementation procedures of Bangladesh national qualification framework.

BUBT vice-chancellor (VC) Fayyaz Khan presided over the workshop’s inaugural session on Wednesday, according to a press release.

Abu Saleh, advisor of BUBT and member of BUBT Trust; Ali Noor, pro-VC of BUBT; Harun-or-Rashid, its registrar; and distinguished members of twelve programme self-assessment committee (PSAC) of different academic programmes of different faculties of BUBT, deans of all faculties and senior professors participated in the workshop.

Santi Narayan Ghosh, director of IQAC and BRIC, welcomed all participants of workshop. He said Bangladesh is a bit late in handling the issue. It is claimed that social, economic and political development of a nation is highly dependent on the strength and quality of tis education system.

During the last 30 years, one of many global policies has been the framing of a qualification framework with a view to achieve quality higher education. It is expected that the implementation of qualification framework will improve skill, and competencies of graduates, and support national development goals and internationalization agenda of the country, he added.

The IQAC director also indicated that during implementation some of the rules may appear to be impracticable. Sometimes certain rules need to be either modified or changed.

Zaved Mannan, additional director of IQAC, conducted a technical session as keynote speaker. He discussed the concept, significance, process, implementation, five objectives and five pillars of Bangladesh national qualification framework (BNQF) in detail.

Zaved Mannan also discussed the progress report of improvement plan of different POE prescribed in self-assessment report (SAR) conducted in 2018. He requested all PSACs to conduct compliance audit of academic programmes.