Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (Bengali: উচ্চ শিক্ষার গুণগত মান বৃদ্ধি প্রকল্প) was a Bangladesh government project, developed with support from the World Bank,[1] to develop and improve Higher Education in Bangladesh.
[2][3] On 24 October 2008, Executive Committee of the National Economic Council led by Chief Advisor of the Caretaker government, Fakhruddin Ahmed, approved Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project with the aim to provide research funding and grants to public and private universities.
[5] On 8 March 2015, the Air Quality Research and Monitoring Centre was established at the University of Dhaka financed by the project.
[6] In July 2017, the project financed the building of a studio at the Department of Television, Film and Photography of the University of Dhaka.
[10][11] Tanzimuddin Khan, International relations professor at University of Dhaka, criticized the project for being too focused on infrastructural developments and not administration and academic improvements.