Sweeping allegations
Registrar, Sylhet International University
Our attention was drawn to your staff correspondent's coverage of a seminar on 'Participatory assessment of problems of private universities' organised by BIISS. While we appreciate such highlighting of the problems of the private universities and constructive suggestions, we nonetheless take exception to such sweeping remarks as '.......none of the country's 52 private universities fulfill all the criteria required for registration under the Private University Act'. We beg to point out that it was not at all based on facts when Mr. Arifur Rahman of Unnayan Samannay in his keynote paper said, 'All the private universities are yet to construct their own campuses.' Through your daily we want to inform all concerned that Sylhet International University (SIU) since its inception on 24.11.2001 has been functioning on its own campus of 5.4 acres of land and an academic building of 15,000 sq. ft. floor space situated in Sylhet city. We therefore seek to point out that along with criticism there should be acknowledgement of achievements of the private universities.
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