SOMETHING must be going wrong with our private universities. If you have had cause to follow events, you just might recall the various incidents in which students of one private university have engaged in skirmishes with those of another.
Authorities are going to cancel the monthly pay order (MPO) facility for 27 private colleges under the Barisal Education Board on charges of irregularities and failing to perform well.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said stern actions would be taken against the private universities that could not move for their own campus within the stipulated period, reports BSS.
The constant violence of student politics at Bangladesh's public universities pushed many students—especially from affluent backgrounds—to seek higher education at more peaceful, relatively violence-free private universities.
Private universities have beaten their public counterparts in enrolment of international students in a dramatic turn of events over the last couple of years, according to a report by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
At least seven new private universities with reported links to the ruling party are awaiting approval as the present government nears the end of its term, despite claims that most of the existing higher education institutions in the private sector are underperforming and struggling to attract students.
Officials say the policy was drawn up based on interest expressed by a number of foreign universities and their branches, considering the growing number of higher education aspirants in the country. However, academics and private university stakeholders have expressed fear that the policy, which is currently under the Law Ministry’s vetting, would create discrimination between the foreign and local universities and would allow substandard universities from abroad to flood Bangladesh’s education arena.
At least seven new private universities in Bangladesh with reported links to the ruling party are awaiting approval as the government nears the end of its term, despite claims that most existing higher education institutions in the private sector are underperforming and struggling to attract students, writes Mushfique Wadud for the Dhaka Tribune.
The education ministry is actively considering a suggestion of a parliamentary watchdog to make MPs the heads of the public schools and colleges as they are now chairing the governing bodies of non-government secondary schools and colleges in their constituencies.
Six new private universities with reported links to Bangladesh’s ruling party have obtained the government’s approval. With only a few months left of tenure, the government approved the universities despite claims that most existing private higher education institutions are underperforming and struggling to attract students, reports Dhaka Tribune.
The mushroom growth of private universities in almost every nook and cranny of the big cities, especially the divisional headquarters, has for long been a cause for worry. Although initially, say in the early nineties, when private universities began to be housed in residential and commercial buildings, it did not raise many eyebrows as the public universities were not at all able to cope with the increasing demands for higher education.
Exim Bank Agriculture University, the country’s first private agriculture university in Chapainawabganj, started its journey yesterday creating new scopes for the students interested in higher education on agriculture.
The North South University (NSU) is one of the oldest, prestigious and expensive private universities in Bangladesh. It has been serving the cause of education for more than a decade. By this time, many students obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees from this university and moved overseas for higher education.
The Bangladesh Private Medical College Association has asked the health ministry to increase the quota for foreign students to 40% from the existing 25% for the current academic year (2013-2014).
Some of the private medical and dental colleges in the country are allegedly making millions of takas illegally by admitting local students in seats reserved for foreign students.