The president, Zillur Rahman, on Wednesday said social discrimination will be increased, if the poor students are not getting opportunities to enrol in private universities.
'Higher education should be universal for all, otherwise social discrimination will be increased and education to be turned into commodity,' he said while presiding over the 4th convocation of University of Science and Technology Chittagong at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.
Former president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, spoke as the convocation speaker while the prime minister's adviser Alauddin Ahmed spoke as the special guest.
Vice chairman of Janasheba Foundation Ahmed Iftekharul Islam and USTC's founding vice chancellor Dr Nurul Islam among others spoke on the occasion.
President Zillur Rahman said educational institutions are the non-profit, humane, service oriented and national institutions for developing human resources. 'For that, it must be ensured that the higher educational institutes not be turned into commercial organisations,' he said.
The president, who is also chancellor of all universities, asked the authorities of the private universities to fix logical tuition fess keeping relevance with society and economy of the country.
President Rahman laid emphasis on building the universities as the best institutions to generate human resources that play the most important role in the national development.
'Educational institutions in our country are the basic institutions for flourishing talents and generating human resources, he said.
Human resources are not merely the national resources but also international resources, he said, adding that top emphasis has to be given in developing human resources with a view to targeting national development.
Source : New Age
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