Subinoy Shuvo (not the real name) completed his graduation from Moulvibazar Govt College affiliated with National University (NU) more than 2.5 years ago. He has been giving job tests for quite some time now but has not been able to get one yet.
He told this correspondent that, “Moulvibazar Govt College had more than 17,000 students while I was still studying at the institution. But the college had only 70 teachers for them. How would the students learn properly with so many crises for teachers?”
“Many things go wrong for NU students when it comes to the job market. Classroom crisis, teacher crisis, lack of goodwill of authorities on various issues, wrong curriculum for the job market,” Subinoy Shuvo said.
Only 21 percent of national university-affiliated college students have attained a job following graduation/post-graduation, 66 percent graduate students from these institutions are not getting jobs.
A survey recently conducted by Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies from February to June this year revealed the data.
As per the survey result, 7% among the graduates are still pursuing post-graduation or technical education in another subject. Only three percent are taking initiatives by themselves to earn a living.
BIDS researcher and the survey coordinator Minhaj Mahmud told this correspondent that, we counted only those people as unemployed who do not have any kind of job and are seeking a full-time job actively.
“We saw that students who did part time jobs while still students and who were actively doing extracurricular activities are ahead in terms of getting jobs, others are struggling in the job market. So, we can assume that NU does not have the necessary educational curriculum required for the job market,” he said over a mobile phone conversation.
Among the employed graduates, 97% said that their college does not have the necessary provision for job search support. Garment and education sector have the highest total proportion of participation across both genders among the full-time workers, health and education among the part-time workers.
The national university website says more than 20 lakh students’ study in the colleges affiliated with the university. There are 2,300 public and private affiliated colleges in the country and of these, 275 are government colleges.
The telephone survey was conducted on undergraduate and post-graduate students of 54 government and private colleges of the country who finished graduation or post-graduation by 2017.
1,639 students, 200 heads of educational institutions and 233 job-holders from 54 institutes participated in the survey.
