Staff Reporter :
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Sunday again advised the private universities to move to their own campuses or to face legal actions including bar on enrolling of new students.
“We have given you plenty of time to shift from temporary campuses to permanent campuses. But some universities have not still complied with our instruction. The Education Ministry will take stern action against the defaulters,” he said.
The Minister as the chief guest issued the warning at the 18th Convocation of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) yesterday.
The Minister said, there are currently 95 private universities operational in the country. The government granted specific time to 51 of them. The latest deadline expired last month.
According to a report of the University Grants Commission (UCG), 12 private universities only are currently operating on their own campuses, but rest 39 are yet to complete the task.
Some of those 39 universities have opened their new campuses partially, some are still doing construction work, some are yet to begin construction, while one of them has not even legally purchased land for new campus yet, Nahid said.
At the Convocation, 1,419 Bachelors and Masters degree students were awarded Fertificates. BRAC Founder and Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, UGC Chairman Professor Abdul Mannan, IUB Vice-Chancellor Professor M Omar Rahman and Chairman of IUB Board of Trustee Rashed Choudhury spoke at the event, among others.
Founder and Chairperson of BRAC, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, in his address urged the students to broaden their perspectives, ask questions, develop capacity for healthy risk-taking, and learn from their mistakes. “A true modern education is not just about achieving academic excellence or adding to your store of knowledge. It is about broadening your perspective, to ask searching questions, develop your capacity for healthy risk-taking, and learning from your mistakes,” Sir Abed said.
