Education For Sale?

Education for Sale?
Recent events at JnU have over again brought to focus the possible catastrophic consequences of UGCs long term strategical plan for higher(prenominal) education. In addition to multiplying the cost of higher education, the policies will leave research, curriculum and integrity of academic milieu susceptible to corporate intervention. Analysts anticipate that the institutions will have the façade of public universities but will essentially function as private ones. Attempts to implement the policies are being met with strong antagonist from the students. Under the circumstances, the authorities need to rethink the contours of the strategic plan.
Akram Hosen Mamun
Photos: Zahedul I khan
The victory
Given the political resistance to increasing tuition fees, advanced ways of improving cost recovery from beneficiaries need to be devised.
Education Sector Review World Bank, 2000
The premises of steamroller University (JnU) on October 9 turned into a festival ground. The rise crescendo of a mob of euphoric students shouting slogans of victory over blasts of firecrackers that sounded like gunshots, gave a loud and clear message. In the carnivalesque air, students faces were splashed with red hues and their dresses smeared with coloured water.



It was not rag solar day nor was it a commemoration of the just finished Durga Puja.
The students were celebrating a victory. They had won the right to university education.

The Strategy Plan stresses that public universities must capture financially self-reliant.
The JnU authorities closed the institution on phratry 29 following a four-day-long mass protest by students demanding continued governing funding for the university. Six days later, the government succumbed to the popular demand and decided to keep subsidising the JnU, Comilla and Kazi Nazrul Islam universities like other(a) public universities, reversing the previous decision to stop funding.
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