A high price to pay

A high price to pay

Mushfique Wadud digs deep into what led to the recent protest by the students of North South University and finds out why the fees of private universities are going up while the quality of education is under question

photo by Ma Raquib Khan

On May 10, the premises of North South University, the country’s first private university, were hounded by several hundred of its students as they staged daylong demonstrations through the course of which, a number of offices on the campus including the vice chancellor’s was vandalised.