He holds a Bachelor's degree in English, a Master's degree in English Literature and a Master's degree in Education (TESOL) and is a Senior Fellow of the UK Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy). His doctoral thesis investigated how vested interest groups - such as universities and governments - construct and understand the term 'international' to establish the so-called needs of international students in Australia and how such understanding is promoted for largely implicit commercial and hegemonic reasons. He is author of Desiring TESOL and International Education: Market Abuse and Exploitation (Multilingual Matters, 2014) and has published widely in the areas of TESOL and languages education, culture and pedagogy, English teacher education, international education, social justice and identity. Raqib has been invited as Keynote Speaker and Visiting Scholar at many international conferences and universities and has delivered seminars and professional development and graduate research workshops in China, Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Thailand.

His latest book is The Privatisation of Higher Education in Postcolonial Bangladesh: The Politics of Intervention and Control (Routledge, 2021) while his latest edited book is Engaging with Australasia: Comparative Research on ELT and English Teacher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). 

Raqib received two Monash University Vice-Chancellor's Social Inclusion Awards in 2010 (Winner) and 2011 (Commendation), as well as the Dean's Award for Programs that Enhance Learning in 2012. In 2003 he won the Dean's Award for Outstanding Research Publication in the Faculty of Arts, Dhaka University (Bangladesh), where he was teaching at the time.

In 2023, Raqib received the Monash Education Dean’s Excellence Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, the President’s Commemorative Medal from Vietnam National University, the Rector’s Distinguished Scholar Award from the University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam and was nominated as Monash Graduate Association Supervisor of the Year.

Raqib has supervised 20 Monash PhD students to completion and is currently supervising five. He is involved in a number of international collaborative projects involving Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam and China on the themes of equity and race, higher education reform, teacher training and professional development, and research capacity building.

Raqib is recognised as an Indonesian Expert with the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre.