Quality Assurance Committee Convened
The University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh convened for the eleventh time its Quality Assurance Committee (QAC) on 17 December 2020 using Google Meet. The main agenda of the meeting were: updates of WURI Ranking, updates of QAC Ranking and QS Ranking, Quality Management System Information: Graduate Exit Survey Spring 2020 and Graduate Employability Survey 2019-2020. Vice Chancellor Professor H M Jahirul Haque acted as QAC Chair. The Chair started the meeting with welcoming the members of the committee and he approved the last meeting minutes without any changes. The meeting continued following the stated agenda.
One highlight of the meeting was the presented of the ULAB Graduate Employability Survey 2020. The main objective of the survey is to investigate the graduate’s employment profile, perception of the relevancy/effectiveness of ULAB’s teaching-learning in their career, ratio and reasons for unemployment, and plans for their future. 186 undergraduate and 16 graduate alumni who passed between November 2019 and August 2020 were interviewed. The results showed that 38.6 percent of respondents were employed at the time of the survey while 6.9 percent were having own business, 15.3 percent were pursuing higher studies and 39.1 percent were still looking for jobs.