“Students Against Discrimination” (SAD) sounded like a dream when we first heard about it.
Hope remains that private universities across the country will be able to foster a culture of research at a PhD level.
The UGC's decision to allow private universities to offer PhD programmes is a timely move.
Following much debate and discussion, the University Grants Commission (UGC) is planning to allow private universities to introduce PhD programmes.
Getting a scholarship at these institutes isn’t as complicated as most believe.
University transport services are a great initiative for students and something that most private universities should try to implement.
The new system has created a looming threat of session jams, something previously unheard of in private institutes.
What can we possibly gain from restricting access to scientific knowledge?
The scenario here has been nothing but rushed and confusing.
Every year, after the university admission tests, we find students who score well, but cannot afford their educational expenses, and eventually drop out. Private banks, on the other hand, offer many lucrative loan products for their customers, including education loans.
If it hadn't been for a news report it would have been hard to believe that almost half of all private universities do not have any VC and are being run with mostly acting VCs.
Since July 1, private universities of the country have been in the spotlight and mostly for wrong reasons. In the cacophony of arguments for and against them, an important fact seems to have been lost. A lot of them do not have a campus.
The private universities have made significant contributions to higher education in Bangladesh. Regrettably, there exists lot of misconception about these.
Bangladesh government orders closure of Darul Ihsan University and all illegal branch campuses of privately-run universities.
Bangladesh government calls for a meeting with private universities in the backdrop of finding involvement of private university students with terrorism.
A broad-brush branding of the quality of legal education in private universities may please many and may perpetuate some myths, but probably would make little contribution to the improvement of the real quality of education. It would also fail to respond to the irregularities or lackings. Rather, any perception-based, dismissive attitude would accentuate a futile categorisation which would not be conducive for any meaningful, rigorous assessment.
Despite allegations of numerous irregularities against most of the private universities, the government gives approval to six new universities in the private sector.
Government scraps 7.5 percent VAT on private universities and medical colleges’ tuition fees in face of mass student protests. The decision has been announced in a notice issued from the finance ministry.
Students continue their protest against 7.5 percent VAT on private universities’ tuition fees and blocked some key roads in Dhaka again.
