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Public university study to be pricey

Jagannath University College becomes university in 5 years

Staff Correspondent
Students would soon have to pay tuition fees at commercial rates to study at public universities, as the government would not give subsidy to such universities, who have to cam on their own.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec)
at a meeting yesterday approved upgrading of Jagannath University College to a fully-fledged university at a cost of some Tk 34 crore under the new concept, implementation of which would start in January next.
The government would draft an act to put the new concept into force.
The elevation would take five
years for implementation during which the government would put in place the infrastructure of the university. The university would run on its own financial resources and fix salaries of the teachers and tuition fees of the students.
Ecnec also approved institution of Comill a University at a cost about Tk 33 crore, which would run under the current system. The meeting agreed to a rise in tuition fees as it considered tuition fees the public universities currently charge are meagre, meetingsources said.
Students of public universities currently pay Tk 12-13 a month as tuition fees and they would see a rise in the fees, which would however be less than charged by private universities, according to officials at the education ministry.
"The government currently subsidises 99 percent of the expenditure of public universities and there is a growing demand for more public universities. But it is not possible for the government to continue subsidising the universities. Besides, students would take to the street if the government moves to raise tuition fee," Education Minister Osman Farruk told reporters after the Ecnec meeting.
"In this context, we are going to set up public universities that would run according to the new concept If more universities are to be set up in the future at public initiatives, we would give our approval provided they run under the newsystem," he said.
Asked what would the tuition fee be at the universities, he said, "Certainly it would not be so small as in the public universities, the authorities would fix the fees so as to keep the universities in business."
Ecnec at yesterday’s meeting presided over by its Chairperson and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia approved 13 development projects worth aroundTk 1,085 crore, includ-ingTk 120 crore in project aid.