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Private Universities in Bangladesh

Introduction: Universities those are not operated by government is called private university. In the  beginning of nineties decades Bangladesh government planned to diversify the education sector and approved some private universities. Today, more than 70 private universities operate their activity in the country. But the question is how they are maintaining quality education. Interestingly as like worlds prestigious private universities [Harvard University, Yale University], Bangladeshi institutions are also becoming top universities of the country day by day. Description of the Industry Market Size: According to University Grants Commission's report 2009; 200,949 students were  studying in 51 private universities. It is assumed that the number is now more than  300,000. Though most of the private universities are situated in urban areas like Dhaka  and Chittagong, a larger portion of students are from the cities. Students from rural area's  also studyi...

International Business

International business deals with business activities both production and services that cross the national boundaries. This activity includes the movement of commodity, services, capital or personnel transfer of technology etc. International business is a term to collectively describe all commercial transactions (private and government sales, investment and transportation) that take place between two or more regions, nations and countries beyond their political borders. Usually private companies undertake such transaction for profit, government undertake them for profit and for political reasons. It refers to all these business activities which involves cross border transaction of services, goods and resources between two or more nations. Transaction of economic resource includes capital, skills, people etc. for international production of physical goods and services such as banking, construction, finance etc.  According to J. L. Hanson,  An exchange of various s...

Overview of Dove

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Brief History of Dove:  Dove is an internationally recognized Unilever brand. Mainly produced in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Netherlands, Pakistan, Thailand, Turkey and United States dove products are sold in more than 35 countries.  In 1957, Dove soap was launched in the USA. Dove contained a patented, mild cleansing ingredient. It was positioned - then and now - as a "beauty bar" with one-fourth cleansing cream that moisturizes skin while washing as opposed to the drying effect of regular soap. In 1979, the phrase "cleansing cream" was replaced with "moisturizer cream". Unilever started aggressive marketing and won more than 24% of the market by 2003.  Target Market: Dove mainly produces different beauty product like soap, body wash, deodorant etc. for women. But dove also has a specialized brand for men also which is rarely marketed in South-Asia.  Product Positioning: The place a brand occupies...

Major Political Parties of Bangladesh

Bangladesh politics is two parties based for the couple of years. There are two leading political parties and besides some small political parties also exists. Of Bangladeshi political party, Bangladesh Awami League is the oldest political party, on the other hand Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is formed in the decade of 1970. Currently both parties are leading two coalitions where Bangladesh Awami League leading coalition is ruling government.  Bangladesh Awami League:   Formed in 1949, Bangladesh Awami League is one of the major party in Bangladesh. The party was founded with the aim to remain as an alternative to then ruling party Pakistan Muslim League. The party was initiated by then leader Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardi and Abul Hashim. In 23rd June of 1949, the first committee of East Pakistan Awami Muslim League was commenced in Rose garden Dhaka. Its first president was Mowlana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani and Shamshul Hoque of Tangail was General Secretary of the...

Aims and objective of foreign policy of Bangladesh

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As like other countries, Bangladesh Foreign policy also has some major objectives. Aims and objectives of the Bangladesh foreign policy are to foster public interest, to protect national security, to make sure development, to confirm national dignity and to keep countries ideology alive.  Photo: Bangladesh foreign minister Dr. Dipu Moni To ensure the public interest is the basic reason for a foreign policy. Ensuring public interest one of the major objectives of Bangladesh foreign policy. Policymakers made to serve the purpose of the state and that is the highest priority.  Bangladesh foreign policy is made to ensure national security both internally and externally. Internal dimension can be understood from political and economic stability of the environment. It denotes stability of the domestic sphere of Bangladesh. On the contrary, external security means preservation of freedom from the external opponent  One of the major agenda of Bangladesh foreign...

Major Features of Bangladesh Constitution

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Constitution of Bangladesh was officially adopted on 4th November, 1972 by constitution assembly and implemented on 16 December of the same year, marking the Victory Day. The constitution of the peoples Republic of Bangladesh is written document and inflexible. Based on Bangladesh constitution, Bangladeshi Parliament is one chambered. According to this, Bangladesh judiciary is separated from the executive. Fundamental Principle of State Policy:   Article 8 of Bangladesh constitution described the fundamental principle of state policy which is Nationalism, Democracy, Socialism and Secularism.  Unicameral Legislature:   According to Article 65 of Bangladesh constitution, legislative assembly is unicameral. That means there is only one house parliament which is 'House of the nation' commonly known as 'Jatiya Sangshad'.  Written Document:   The constitution is a written document and is divided into 11 parts, which are further subdivided into 1...

Education Movement of 1962 in brief

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In 1959, then president of Pakistan Ayub Khan formed a commission headed by education secretary SM Sharif to make a framework of an education policy. The commission's report was published in 1962 and provoked a student's agitation in former East Pakistan (Now peoples republic of Bangladesh) because of some anti-poor biased feature. Finally Ayub Khan suspended activation of that policy. Police action against mass demonstration. After independence of Pakistan, central government showed step motherly attitude to its eastern part, Bangladesh. Even number of educational institutes also decreased. As a result dropout rate increased within a short time. In 1958 General Ayub Khan proclaimed martial law as well as became president. His government formed a commission on national education lead by SM Sharif, the then West Pakistan Education Secretary. There were ten other members of the committee apart from the chairmen. In its report they defined education as a productive ...