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Ministry to fix fees in pvt varsities to check edn business

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 08 February 2016

M M Jasim :
The Education Ministry is going to fix the fees of all the private universities to check the education business in the name of higher education in the country.
The top bosses of Education Ministry and University Grants Commission (UGC) have already held several meetings in this regard, the ministry sources said.
The Education Ministry also directed the officials to collect the information about the present fee structure in the universities.
The ministry sources said, the authorities of 88 private universities charge admission fee, tuition fee, examination fee and other development fees whimsically. Even they do not follow the direction of the UGC.
The ministry officials said that the ministry was planning to fix the fees after the private university students protested against the government’s move to impose 10 per cent value added tax (VAT) on private universities and colleges.
They also said that the government’s initiative to fix the fees targeted to ensure quality education and to
 check the education business. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid told The New Nation that the private university authorities vowed that they would ensure quality education and to create scope for all classes of students. But most of the private universities did not maintain that.
He also asked the authorities of the private universities to keep the admission and the tuition fees within the limit considering the socio-economic condition of the people.
The Education Minster also said that the ministry was working to present an excellent private university Act.
Meanwhile, the Education Ministry has also formed a five-member committee to amend the Private University Act-2010 recently. Abdul Quddus, MP, has been made the Convener, Additional Secretary of the Ministry (University) Helal Uddin as Member-Secretary and Jahangir Kabir Nanok, MP, University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Professor Abdul Mannan and a member of UGC are the three members. On January 12, the UGC arranged a top-level meeting in the UGC auditorium to discuss for amending the Private University Act-2010. The Educaion Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, UGC Chairman and other members of UGC and government were present at the meeting.
The top bosses of the education sector reached a consensus to fix the fees. And it will be included in the amendment private university Act.
They also highly criticized the present fee structure in different private universities.  
The issue of the education business was also discussed in private universities in the name of higher education.