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In Crackdown on Corruption, Bangladesh
Removes 4 University Presidents
By
Shailaja Neelakantan/NEW DELHI
Issue
cover-dated May 21, 2008
NEW DELHI -- In what appears to be
a sweeping anti-corruption drive in higher education, the Bangladesh
government has removed the heads of four public universities
for their alleged involvement in corruption and administrative
irregularities, a local newspaper reports.
Three of the four university chiefs
— Mosharraf Hossain Miah of Bangladesh Agricultural University,
Abul Khair of the Noakhali University of Science and Technology,
and Abdul Latif Masum of the Patuakhali University of Science
and Technology — were dismissed on Tuesday. The fourth, Altaf
Hossain of Rajshahi University, was dismissed last week.
The officials were removed on the recommendations
of the country’s university regulator, which uncovered financial
and administrative irregularities, especially in recruiting
professors, during an investigation, the newspaper reports.
Last month Akbar Ali Khan, chairman of a body assigned to modernize
old and ineffective laws, blamed corruption for the rot in Bangladesh’s
education sector.
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