Knowledge and Technology Transfer from Universities to Business Sector: Evidence from UK Science Parks and Subsidiary Companies

The purpose of this article is to define and discuss technology transfer via science parks or subsidiries companies in the context of higher education. Examples of university technology transfer will be given, and issues surrounding the topic will be discussed here. In the knowledge economy, university technology transfer activities are increasingly crucial as a source of regional and national economic development and revenue for the university. We have discussed here two UK universities technology transfer and their invovement in the local and regioanl economy in details.

Quality and TQM at Higher Education Institutions in the UK: Lessons from the University of East London and the Aston University

The objective of this article is to investigate the level of implication of Quality in the University of East London and TQM in the Aston University. The elements of Quality and Accountability are the major driving forces in academic institutions in the UK, and in this respect, the total quality management (TQM) movement has exploded, capturing the attention of educators at all levels. Certainly, higher education embraces the concept of TQM as a set of tools for planning continuous improvement. In wider context, TQM have all sought to achieve fundamental change in organizations. The focuses of these two cases are implication of Quality and TQM programme in the University of East London and Aston University respectively.

Introducing Faulty Approaches & Methods of SL in Primary School Levels: An Analysis from Bangladesh Perspective

Nowadays it is needless to repeat the importance of teaching the second language (SL) in the third world countries (TWCs). As the SL is a foreign language in TWCs, to adopt the language TWCs should have an individual plan to make the teaching process easy for the learners from early childhood to higher education. To execute the plan TWCs have to follow the teaching methods and approaches in which they can get a hint how to cope with those methods and approaches to teaching SL. So, TWCs like Bangladesh should apply the nature of methods and approaches to teaching SL to achieve the goal. The nature is not only the ultimate end but TWCs should revise the method and approach that can be more efficient to learn the four language skills which will cover local norms, values, culture and tradition to cope with the foreign language. The paper aims at analyzing these by doing a survey to find out the faulty methods and approaches which are used in primary schools in Bangladesh. It will also try to justify the gap between the motto and recommended methods and approaches of education policy of the government, provided textbooks introducing in the classes and the teaching strategies and procedures. Finally, it will attempt to evaluate the impact of using faulty methods and methodologies in primary school levels. Though the paper will use many different teaching methods and approaches to introduce the second language learning process, it will evaluate and suggest everything from Bangladesh perspective

Trend of Microcredit in Bangladesh: A Study on Government and Non-Government Institutions and Banks.

The microcredit movement began as an action-research by Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yunus has quickly become a global phenomenon, attracting more than 100 million borrowers world-wide. This program started mid-eighties and their activities increased noticeably higher after 1990. Although non-banking institutions involved in micro finance activities in earlier now nationalized commercial banks, specialized banks and private commercial banks have also started this program in different forms. The study has found that the number of licensed microcredit institutions and their branches are incising year to year. Number of borrowers was 18.89 million in 2009 which become 23.11 million in 2016. In this period the amount of disbursed loan increased by 155.17% (BDT 306.72 billion to BDT 782.67 billion) which is a notable evidence for the growth of this sector. The micro financing of the nationalized and private commercial banks is also found in increasing trend. Up to 2002 the public commercial and specialized banks are distributed BDT 11237.19 crore and this cumulative amount is become BDT 32822.17 crore up to June 2016. Keywords: Microcredit, Growth, Banks, Microfinance institutions. DOI: 10.7176/JESD/10-3-1

Test of Weak Form of Efficiency in Emerging Markets: A South Asian Evidence

This study examines the weak form of efficiency of three South Asian markets named as Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) for a period between January 2000 to June 2010. Data used in the study is monthly closing values of the indices of the said exchanges. The study uses autocorrelation test, unit root tests, co-integration test and Granger causality test to examine the efficiency of the markets. Empirical result reveals that the returns do not follow normal distribution and the distributions are leptokurtic. Autocorrelation and unit root tests imply that the data series are stationary. Johansen co-integration test indicates that there is common stochastic trend shared by the markets. Granger causality test implies that the knowledge of the past return behavior in one market is unlikely to improve forecasts of returns of another market with some exceptions. So tests result implies that the markets are not weak form of efficient

Kazi Nazrul Islam: The Greatest Singer of Equity

ABSTRACT On one hand there is inequality, oppression, colonialism, tyranny, hypocrisy of all kinds-religious, moral or politicalgreed, fanaticism, violence, racism, communalism, sorrow, alienatio

Boundary Layer Solutions For Convective Flow Via Various Group Transformation Methods

In this thesis, two-dimensional laminar convective external boundary layer flow with heat/mass transfer under various physical configurations and in the presence of magnetic field, chemical reaction, radiation, viscous dissipation, heat source or sink, dispersion, melting, thermophoresis, Brownian motion and Joule heating have been investigated. Velocity slip or no slip boundary conditions, the thermal convective or thermal slip boundary conditions have been taken into consideration. The fluid is assumed to be Newtonian (regular and nano), viscous, incompressible, hydrodynamic or magnetohydrodynamic and has constant or variable physical properties. Both steady and unsteady boundary layers have been taken into account. A thorough presentation of the applications of various transformation group (one parameter and two parameters) to the problem of boundary layer equations is given. New as as well as existing group invariant transformations are developed to transform the transport equations to similarity equations. The similarity equations have been solved numerically by the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg fourth-fifth order numerical method for various values of the controlling parameters. Graphs have been plotted to exhibit the effects of the controlling parameters on the dimensionless velocity, temperature, concentration (nanoparticles volume fraction) profiles as well as on the the skin friction factor, rate of heat transfer and rate of mass transfer. The numerical data for the skin friction factor, rate of heat and rate of mass transfer have been provided in tables for various values of the governing parameters. The flow field and other quantities of physical interest were significantly influenced by the controlling parameters. Good agreement was found between the results reported in this thesis and published results from the open literature