M M Jasim :
The government high-ups are unhappy with the Education Ministry for its total failure to bring the government colleges under public universities apparently to reduce the burden on National University (NU).
To ensure quality of education Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 31, 2014 gave directives to bring the colleges having honours and masters degree courses under the affiliation of public universities.
Two years have already been gone in the meantime but the concerned ministry could not show any progress in this regard.
Recently, the authorities for the 3rd time have asked the Education Ministry officials to complete the process as early as possible. The authorities, reportedly, asked the education ministry to make a contemporary work plan on the matter.
An official of the Education Ministry wishing anonymity told The New Nation that the PMO was disappointed with the activities of the ministry. “It is highly unexpected that the directives of government high-ups were not followed even after two years,” he said.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid recently told the journalists that the process to bring the government colleges under public universities is going on.
“The ministry is working to implement the order of the PM,” he said.
Following the PM’s directives, the University Grants Commission (UGC) on December 8, 2014 formed an eight-member committee, headed by Professor Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, to bring government colleges under the supervision of public
universities. But the committee could not provide any report in this connection till the date.
It also formed another six-member committee on July 17 last year and asked it to submit report within 30 working days. But the committee, too, failed to make any progress.
Sources close to the ministry said some of the committee members cannot give the time to sit in meetings.
UGC Chairman Prof. Abdul Mannan said, “The UGC is working to finalize the report. It will be submitted to the ministry soon.”
The NU authorities said that there are severe session jams in public universities and the public university authorities failed to remove their own problems. Question has been raised how the public varsities would take the responsibilities of NU when they are suffering from session jam?
NU Vice-Chancellor Professor Harun-or Rashid told The New Nation that they identified that the NU has been facing two serious problems -session jam and lack of quality education- for the last 22 years.
It is learnt that, there are 2116 educational institutions and 21, 07,602 students under the NU. Of them, government colleges are only 275 where the number of students stands at nearly 13 lakh.
Professor Harun-or Rashid also suggested to bring private colleges offering honours and master’s degrees alongside the government colleges under the public universities.
“A comprehensive study is needed to implement this. Hope, there will be no session jam at the National University by the year 2017 in the NU,” he added.
The government high-ups are unhappy with the Education Ministry for its total failure to bring the government colleges under public universities apparently to reduce the burden on National University (NU).
To ensure quality of education Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 31, 2014 gave directives to bring the colleges having honours and masters degree courses under the affiliation of public universities.
Two years have already been gone in the meantime but the concerned ministry could not show any progress in this regard.
Recently, the authorities for the 3rd time have asked the Education Ministry officials to complete the process as early as possible. The authorities, reportedly, asked the education ministry to make a contemporary work plan on the matter.
An official of the Education Ministry wishing anonymity told The New Nation that the PMO was disappointed with the activities of the ministry. “It is highly unexpected that the directives of government high-ups were not followed even after two years,” he said.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid recently told the journalists that the process to bring the government colleges under public universities is going on.
“The ministry is working to implement the order of the PM,” he said.
Following the PM’s directives, the University Grants Commission (UGC) on December 8, 2014 formed an eight-member committee, headed by Professor Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, to bring government colleges under the supervision of public
universities. But the committee could not provide any report in this connection till the date.
It also formed another six-member committee on July 17 last year and asked it to submit report within 30 working days. But the committee, too, failed to make any progress.
Sources close to the ministry said some of the committee members cannot give the time to sit in meetings.
UGC Chairman Prof. Abdul Mannan said, “The UGC is working to finalize the report. It will be submitted to the ministry soon.”
The NU authorities said that there are severe session jams in public universities and the public university authorities failed to remove their own problems. Question has been raised how the public varsities would take the responsibilities of NU when they are suffering from session jam?
NU Vice-Chancellor Professor Harun-or Rashid told The New Nation that they identified that the NU has been facing two serious problems -session jam and lack of quality education- for the last 22 years.
It is learnt that, there are 2116 educational institutions and 21, 07,602 students under the NU. Of them, government colleges are only 275 where the number of students stands at nearly 13 lakh.
Professor Harun-or Rashid also suggested to bring private colleges offering honours and master’s degrees alongside the government colleges under the public universities.
“A comprehensive study is needed to implement this. Hope, there will be no session jam at the National University by the year 2017 in the NU,” he added.
