North American degrees
A. Lyse Patantula , Sylhet
Passing of the Private University Act triggered the boom of universities everywhere in the country, especially in Dhaka perhaps because of its enormous business potential. There is no doubt some of these institutions enhanced the larger scope for education and provided wider options for the large student community intending to pursue higher studies without going abroad. Unfortunately, a very few private universities are providing quality education, with full time faculty members having strong academic records, research exposure and reputed publications. These universities nowadays are going to set up a new standard of qualification (?) for their prospective faculty which we can see in their faculty search advertisements, imposing a quite unjustified condition of giving preference to North American degree holders while the achievement of an individual candidate largely depends on his/her personal merit, academic excellence, publications in notable journals and finally the institution where he/she attended. It is admitted that NA degrees have strong reputation and recognised all over the world due to highest quality, but it is definitely quite unjust to pay no heed to the graduates coming out of universities outside North America. Each year more than hundred universities of Europe, Asia, and Australia hold the highest ranking as the centre of academic excellence, beating some of these NA institutions. Practice of such an unjust preference is seen in our private universities, to give a notion to general public that they are fully American and providing American education! I think that the authorities concerned do not have the right to ignore and undermine the degrees of other age-old reputed institutions outside NA.
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