Bangladesh, Oct. 11 -- The universities -one after another -are making news for all the wrong reasons. When teachers and scholars of some of the world's prestigious centres of tertiary education are becoming recipients of the Nobel Prize, vice-chancellors (VCs) or teachers of a number of universities in this country have either been compelled to resign or stubbornly clinging to their posts in the face of student protests against their alleged involvement in academic and administrative irregularities together with financial misappropriation.
A University Grant Commission (UGC) investigation found truth in the charges brought against the VC of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University at Gopalganj and he had to leav...