While this "unhappy marriage" has placed undue stress on all involved, the complexities of creating new universities necessitate careful consideration of various factors.
In our university classrooms, passive lectures are still the dominant mode of teaching.
Authorities closed all entry and exit points of the Secretariat
Disenchanted students are now demanding the creation of a “Dhaka Central University” comprising the seven colleges.
For the cynics, the absence of any Bangladeshi university among the top 800 institutions recently ranked by Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THEWUR) 2025 is unacceptable.
The centralisation of examinations in Dhaka fosters inequality and compromises the recruitment process.
The UGC's decision to allow private universities to offer PhD programmes is a timely move.
Putting aside the fanfare, the fact that boys are lagging behind girls in most school exams needs to be scrutinised carefully.
The practical implementation of this method has revealed significant shortcomings.
A Supreme Court lawyer sends legal notice to the government seeking judicial inquiry into the custodial death of a UGC official by 24 hours.
A Dhaka court places University Grants Commission (UGC) Assistant Director Omar Siraj and two others on two-day remand each on charge of question-paper leakage for admission test of medical colleges.
UGC forms probe body to look into alleged involvement of UGC Assistant Director Omar Siraj in question paper leakage of this year’s medical and dental college admission tests.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion detain three people including an official of the University Grants Commission (UGC) in connection with question leak in Dhaka.
