Attitude towards private universities
The 'prosperity' in monetary terms to the entrepreneurs 'of some private universities' has triggered a race against time to establish new private universities in Bangladesh. Now a foreign private university has opened a campus in Bangladesh and it claims that it needs no UGC recognition. There are new exotic breeds in the pipeline. There is one private university in Farmgate which operates at noon. Interestingly, the same venue is used for other purposes in the morning. I am really 'shocked and awed' at my ignorance about all those 'common practice all over the world'. Nobody,x to the best of my knowledge, has any reservation about the 'borrowed knowledge' of the private university students. The bad thing is that the teachers of public universities are running a tight schedule to get some extra bucks from the private universities, which is resulting in a poorer class performance on the part of the teachers in both public and private universities.
Indeed, private universities in our country have many new teachers who have completed higher education with good results from different local and foreign universities. But there are allegations that people with forged certificates of foreign degree of some imaginary university (in America and UK) became teachers of some private universities. (ref- Sapthahik 2000) The authorities concerned did not feel the need to verify the authenticity of the certificates. Some of "academicians", who are members of the management boards, had their degrees from foreign countries, may be from America or Britain. How come the "academicians" had no clue about the forged certificates of fictitious universities?
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Maybe, the writer does not mind paying the outrageous amount of fees charged by the private universities. I am sure a lot of private university students find it too much. As for myself, I can say I enjoy all the facilities and even more than those, despite being a public university student.
I hope that equal opportunity in its true sense will prevail in both private and public universities.