Salvage education
Molla Mohammad Shaheen Dept of English, DU
The University Grants Commission has conducted a thorough investigation into the functioning and quality of the private universities of Bangladesh. The probe body has found that most of them do not go by the provisions of the Private University Act, 1992. Alarmingly, private universities have mushroomed in our country, especially in Dhaka city. Maximum universities do not have rudimentary infrastructure. They hire teachers from public universities on part-time basis. They have no permanent campus, but they accommodate their students in a rented house. Frankly speaking, most of the private universities, sans a few ones, are nothing but coaching centres. They are run on commercial basis. The government should wake up from the deep slumber to rescue the quality of education from an imminent catastrophe. The UGC probe body has recommended cancellation of registration of eight universities and adoption of corrective steps for many others. The govt. should take this issue very seriously.
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