Interview taken by the Daily New Age about the Private university enrolment dips

The enrolment of private university students in the summer semester drastically dropped amid the COVID-19 outbreak as students lost their financial ability to continue education at such universities that usually charge huge amount of tuition fees. Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh data shows that enrolment in this summer semester at the private universities fell by up to 88 per cent compared to the summer semester of 2019.

Bangladesh Private University Faculty Forum convenor Mohammad Fakhrul Islam said that most of the private universities curtailed the salaries of their teachers, while many of them terminated a huge number of teachers amid the outbreak.

‘The jobless teachers are now struggling for survival,’ he said.

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