Policy Innovation - Three Specific proposals to reinvigorate Private Universities
The current government should focus on the long term development goal of country. Private sector educational institutions would play an important role in that. Government should provide both moral and resource support to the private sector universities.
We have three specific proposals, among many other possibles, to consider in today's writeup. Here they are:
1. Make sure that the universities are run by honest and competent people and also, make the donations in universities tax free.
2. Facilitate to create a ETS like organization that would introduce a homegrown testing service that would facilitate a common admission tests for the universities. This would be something like a Bangladeshi version of SAT or GRE or GMAT. Eventually, such an organization would create the environment that standardizes the admission procedure among the univerisities in the private sector. Also, such a test score will establish a de-facto ranking among the universities. BRAC University, along with some other universities like Independent University, United University should introduce this combined testing service body in a small scale. This organization or company can operate as social business. We think, eventually, many other private universities will start using this service.
3. Spread the private sector universities geographically - establish at least one university in each district headquarters throuhg Land Grant, i.e. government will allocate a campus for a private university in each district headquarter.
If you thought some of the ideas are worth of your reading time, please forward it to others. If you have an ear to the columinsts in regular traditional media, please forward it to them. If you have an ear to the journalists and news editors of the electronic media, discuss it with them. Hope they would look at the suggestions and give due diligence.
Thanks for your time,
Innovation Line
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