While some countries included Science, Technology and Invention into their developing agenda, of the middle income countries Bangladesh has successfully executed the project of Digital Bangladesh. The quality of Education has thus increased with 20% of the students studying at the bachelor level here. This percentage is in top amongst the countries in Asia. This information has been collected from UNESCO’s Science Report towards 2030.

The report says there were 1,840,000 students who were admitted in different universities in Bachelor programmes. It was 1,490,000 in 2009. In the meantime this number has grown by 68% in Science and Technology. The report shows that engineers tend to study more at the PhD level than other students of other disciplines. There were 178 engineers who were admitted in PhD programmes which increased to 521 in 2012. As per the report there are a total of 7,090 students who are PhD holders in Bangladesh. On the other hand, there are total 1,836,659 students studying in Bachelor and Masters levels.

The report mentions there were only 283 Scientific Publications in Bangladesh and that too has increased to 1,394 in 2014. UNESCO points out those Bangladeshi scientists are writing these publications in association with other co-essayists of countries like USA, Japan, UK, Malaysia and South Korea, pointing towards a strong trend of internationalisation in higher education. It has been seen in the Higher education quality growth project’s (2009-2018) midyear evaluation the quality of education is progressing well in Bangladesh.

Read the full UNESCO Science Report towards 2030 here. Bangladesh section page 580 – 583.