Message from Director

Welcome from the Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Northern University Bangladesh (NUB).

It is known that in every public and private university of Bangladesh has established the Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) for developing a mechanism for systematic reviews of study programs, and enhanced the quality of education and to ensure the teaching-learning, research, knowledge generation and support services standards at an acceptable level.

Understanding the emerging need of quality in tertiary education, the IQAC was established at Northern University Bangladesh (NUB) on April, 2016 in order to institutionalize and substantiate NUB’s priority to the quality since its inception with an initial funding from NUB as well as the project “Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP)” under the University Grants Commission (UGC), Bangladesh, Ministry of Education. The IQAC has been established to promote the quality of education at NUB through internal and external Quality Assurance (QA) measures. The IQAC is maintaining close contacts with different relevant organizations, including the UGC, the Bangladesh Accreditation Council (BAC), and the Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (BAETE). The IQAC of NUB is playing a pivotal role in implementing Outcome-based Education (OBE) as a quality assurance measure in different programs. Since its inception, NUB created a long tradition of good practices in higher education thus became a symbol of quality, a name, full of hope. However, it believes quality is not the summation of acts, rather a habit; hence there is no finishing line in achieving quality. Therefore, NUB happily accepted the wonderful opportunity extended by the Quality Assurance Unit (QAU) of UGC under the HEQEP project and established an independent unit called Institutional Quality Assurance Cell, which is known as IQAC. I would like to thank QAU, UGC, HEQEP, World Bank and obviously NUB for taking such timely initiative that is going to change our higher education environment. NUB is committed to excellence and innovation in learning, teaching, and research and continuously strives to improve its learning environment and update its curricula. The IQAC is assisting in centralizing quality assurance activities at NUB.

The IQAC assures the stakeholders-students, faculty, administrative staff, quality circle members, funding agencies and society in general – of the accountability and transparency in the quality management system of the institution. The IQAC is responsible for ensuring that the quality assurance policies and procedures of the university are robust and effective in maintaining and monitoring the standards of academic awards and supporting the enhancement of teaching, learning and research experiences in the university.

I am very pleased to state that since April, 2016 IQAC has become a permanent educational wing of Northern University Bangladesh. It is the enthusiasm of the members of faculty and management as well as the students, their unconditional sincere cooperation that are going to be the capital for this tough journey of IQAC. Working as an independent center, it is dedicated to the greater improvement of the university. I look forward to your valuable support and cooperation in this new journey of IQAC. With your support and kind cooperation, IQAC at NUB can become a pioneer in Higher University Education in Bangladesh. As the Director of IQAC I would like to make this request to all of our stakeholders, let us do the best and be the leader. Our predecessors had a dream who established this institution. It is us who are going to make this dream come true.

Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman
Director, IQAC, NUB