Twenty-First Century Challenges and Adaptation for Higher Educational Institutes: A Web Content Analysis of Public-Private Universities in Bangladesh

Abstract

This paper examines adaptation process and position of current higher educational institutions initiatives for quality assessment and competition for twenty first century challenges. Key objective of this study is to examine twenty identified variables which mostly observe recent rapid changes of technology in the educational sectors especially for higher educational system in globally. Statistically representative sample as for thirty-six public and seventy-six private universities official website were randomly selected for analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to produce cross tabulation and graphical presentations and multivariate model was employed to observe significance relationship between dependent variable as Level of Educational Facilities and independent variables. Primarily, it shows that few universities were taken initiative in some sectors to adapt present and future challenges but all variables were statistically indicated insignificant. Thus, this study suggests that University Grant Commission (UGC) should conduct depth research by comparing with international educational framework and quality measurement policies.

Keywords: adaptation, challenges, quality, education, research