Legal actions would be taken against private universities if they failed to resolve conflicts with their respective trustee board members, said the Education Ministry yesterday.
The decision was taken at an evaluation meeting of the ministry presided by Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid in the presence of University Grants Commission Chairman A K Azad Chowdhury.
Academic activities in some private universities are being hampered largely due to internal conflicts between members of respective trustee boards, observed the participants. They decided to either halt the academic activities of these universities or appoint an administrator from the government.
The meeting stressed that private universities that could not shift to their permanent campuses after seven years of receiving approval, must do so by September 15, 2015.
In case they fail to do so, their temporary licenses would be cancelled, thus restricting the enrollment of new students.
The government would appoint a vice-chancellor, pro-vice chancellor and treasurer for universities where the respective posts have remained vacant for long, and those that had not approached the government in this regard yet.
Action would be taken against universities that do not conduct audits or submit audit reports to the ministry on a regular basis. An audit team will be formed by the ministry and UGC jointly.
The meeting decided to implement the Cross-Border Higher Education Act soon, to allow the opening of branches of foreign universities in the country after scrutiny.