Ariful Haq Kabir

Biographic Data

ID6329584
NAMEAriful Haq Kabir
GIVEN NAMESAriful Haq
FAMILY NAMEKabir
SIGNATUREKABIR A H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Dhaka
ORCID0000-0001-5706-3801
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Nurturing merit

    Open AccessTebeje Molla, Emma Charlton et al.ARTICLEStudies in Higher Education2026

    Meritocratic university admission systems are founded on the principle of equality of opportunity but often fail to address structural inequalities. This limits the ability of universities to provide substantive opportunities and achieve equity. In response, many higher education institutions implement alternative pathway programs as equity measures. These programs challenge the notion of merit as a fixed attribute that locates success solely in …

  • The role of geopolitics of knowledge in the mediatization of global university rankings

    Open AccessRiyad A Shahjahan, Ariful Haq Kabir et al.ARTICLEHigher Education2025

  • Policy Borrowing

    Ariful Haq KabirARTICLEComparative Education Review2024

    While reference societies as an “externalization” process are often used to justify borrowing policies from abroad, a concerted attempt to understand how “power” influences this process, particularly regarding “semiperipheral” references to the periphery, remains absent. This article explores the externalization process in the formulation of higher education (HE) policy in Bangladesh. Using a qualitative approach, it employs thematic analysis of …

  • Global crisis management and higher education

    Open AccessAnatoly V Oleksiyenko, Pamela Mendoza et al.ARTICLEHigher Education Quarterly2023

    Campus crisis management remains an understudied topic in the context of COVID‐affected higher education. In this paper, we contrasted the ability to tame the wicked problems brought by the pandemic of COVID‐19 in private and public universities in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Colombia, India, Kazakhstan, Uganda, and Ukraine. The cross‐country analysis and diversity of institutional types allowed us to consider a wide range of challenges faced by academ…

  • Network governance’ and the formation of the strategic plan in the higher education sector in Bangladesh

    Ariful Haq KabirARTICLEJournal of Education Policy2021Cited by: 3References: 41

    The concept ‘network governance’ has become widespread and is often believed to occur in a Western environment. Is network governance applicable to other contexts and what can we learn from it in Bangladeshi context? This paper outlines how the idea of ‘network governance’ emerged and how it operates in a neoliberal higher education policy-formulation process in Bangladesh. It is based on a qualitative case study, using qualitative content analys…

  • Neoliberalism, Violence and Student Resistance in the Higher Education Sector in Bangladesh

    Open AccessArif Haq Kabir, Ariful Haq Kabir et al.ARTICLESociety and Culture in South Asia2017

    Neoliberalism is a common form of policy doctrine that has been incorporated into the higher education sector in Bangladesh since the 1990s. Due to this policy doctrine, Bangladesh’s higher education sector has experienced radical changes. This article argues that violence has erupted in higher education institutions following university authorities and government intervention into student resistance movements. It further argues that the campus v…