Thakurgaon University Bill-2023 placed in Parliament

City Desk :
Thakurgaon University Bill, 2023 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad in an attempt to create and enhance opportunities of modern knowledge practice and studies in different phases and attaining equality with the advance world in different spheres of higher education.

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni placed the bill in the House on the fourteenth instant with Deputy Speaker Shamsul Huq Tuku in the chair.

Piloting the bill, the minister said the establishment of the university is necessary and reasonable in view of developing education, research, training and extension programme at the graduate and post-graduate levels, reports BSS.

With this new university, the number of public universities will reach 51. The country now has 108 private universities as well.

The move to set up a public university in Thakurgaon is in line with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s promise to establish full-fledged public universities in all the districts.

Earlier, the cabinet approved the draft of ‘Thakurgaon University Act, 2022’ in principle on February 28, this year.

Similar to other public universities, the President will act as the Chancellor and will appoint Vice-Chancellors for a term of four years.

The university will have a vice-chancellor and a treasurer, said the meeting insider.

He also said that the draft law set out the rules and regulations for conducting the activities and curriculum of the university.

The number of universities, both public and private, is increasing in the country every year, but many of them are unable to provide quality education as per world standard.

Experts said that the government should pay more attention to ensuring quality education in the existing universities to cope with rising world standards.