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Governance and Academic Management of Private Universities in Bangladesh:Need for Embracing a New Paradigm
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In the segment of higher education in Bangladesh, a noteworthy progression has been manifesting over the last two decades. The country has marked her fair participation in higher education, which is escalating in promising numbers. This study particularly emphasizes upon the prospects of development and the impediments confronted by the academic managers on regular basis. This paper closely scrutinizes upon the management mechanisms in private institutions across the country, which calls for significant enhancements in order to obtain eminence in the field of academia. The two very important entities required for the smooth functioning of an institution or any institutions for that matter requiring collective efforts are the management and the academic body. However, the education sector is inhibited by lack of accountability by these two very imperative entities. The paper makes suitable recommendations and highlights possible coordination mechanisms which could help to yield optimum results in the forthcoming years.
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Academic Manager, Accountability, Bangladesh, Governance, Private University.
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