The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

Speakers at a seminar on yesterday laid emphasis on ensuring quality of education at the higher educational institutions to generate skilled manpower to keep pace growing competition.

They also said there were a lot of institutions for higher education at private, public, national and international levels at present but questions had been raised about their quality.

University and Industry Alliance (U & I), a centre for delivering high quality management and educational consulting services at Dhaka University (DU), organised the seminar titled 'academic governance: quality assurance and collegiality' at the university's senate building.

With U &I President Prof GM Chowdhury in the chair, DU Vice-Chancellor Prof SMA Faiz attended the function as chief guest and Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) President Waliur Rahman Bhuiyan as special guest.

Deputy VC of Central Queensland University in Australia Prof Angela C Delves presented keynote paper on the occasion. She upheld various components of quality assurance in higher education and an overview of academic governance in Australian universities at the seminar.