Continuous Professional Development -- An Issue in Tertiary Education in Bangladesh.

Development of any kind is the process of becoming the best. Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is rather a requirement for all the employees of an organization. It aims at bringing benefit to the individual as well as to the organization, and to the profession as a whole. The two parties involved in CPD are the individual and the organization. The former makes a commitment to develop herself and the latter actively supports it. This support from the organization is a must in CPD. Bangladesh is in its infancy as far as awareness of CPD is concerned. In the education sector, the country is yet to be adequately aware of, initiate and grow up with CPD. The private universities in Bangladesh seem to have started addressing the idea of CPD seriously in the recent days. This paper aims at finding out the CPD scenario in private universities in Bangladesh both at the individual level and at the organizational level, through a questionnaire that was sent to teachers of different private universities. Finally, recommendations are made on what should and can be done by the faculty members as well as by the organizations, to ensure and boost up CPD process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]