Private University Act
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A well thought article has been published in The Daily Star entitled 'Private University Act: Implementation is more challenging' where Dr. Abdul Mannan, former Vice-Chancellor of CU, has sought practical implementation of the Private University Act-2010. He has emphasized on whether learning and teaching is taking place properly. He has concluded his article with the opinion that a few perpetrators should not be allowed to blemish the image of the entire sector. The world is shifting. We cannot live with archaic ideas and outdated thinking. We just need to be a bit realistic and make appropriate roadmap to bridge the talent gap by making our higher education system and its administration more useful. To begin with, we should stop unnecessary sabre-rattling and start implementing the Act with rationality and logic and without prejudice of any sort. Let the good and promising ones thrive and gross perpetrators be punished. As an ordinary citizen, I strongly agree with his opinion and would like to add that Bangladesh lacks world-class universities according to international rankings. If Bangladesh invests a large amount of money and human capital in academic improvement and expansion without undertaking strategies to ensure that the investment yields results, resources will be wasted and failure assured. We should move our attention and energies away from getting a world-class status, and instead revamp our universities from within.
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