Permanent mechanism to evaluate private universities

The need for an accreditation council to watch over the affairs of the universities is acutely felt when many of the private universities are considered to be performing below the expected standard. The beneficial side to a formal and official accreditation council would be continuous pressure on the defaulting institutions to go all-out in their bid to improve standard or be recognised for what they are now and suffer the consequences of decline in enrolment of students.
However, the proposed accreditation council needs to be staffed by very scrupulous and non partisan persons or ones with no links with vested interests that have cropped up in the sphere of higher private education.
Fahima Siddiqui
Uttara, Dhaka.