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PROPHE Summary (by Prachayani Praphamontripong): The Bangladeshi government has decided to close down seven
private universities after reviewing the private university evaluation
report on 52 private universities from the University Grants Commission
(UGC). Seven of the eight private universities will get closure notices
while the eighth will receive an extension as it has sufficient infrastructure.
The allegations include administering admissions without UGC approval,
forging reports on faculty and students, providing counterfeit reports
on income and expenditure, hiring unqualified teachers, enrolling students
without certificates of the higher secondary examination, and having inadequate
infrastructure as regulated in the Private University Act.
For the full story, see Xinhua News, January 2005. "Bangladeshi
government to close down seven private universities," by Dhaka.
PROPHE Observation (by Daniel
C. Levy):
The Bangladeshi crackdown fits a pattern we now see often: proliferation
of private higher education institutions followed by grave concern over
quality and compliance. Reflecting on other PROPHE News Features, we see
that government action to shut down non-compliant privates appears widespread.
On the other hand, one can look at this same Bangladeshi report and note
that the vast majority of privates are permitted to continue functioning.
It is not uncommon for proliferation to be followed by weeding (whether
through official evaluations and directives or through market competition)
and, conceivably, a private sector that gets strengthened.
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