Integrate moral aspects in curriculum

President Iajuddin Ahmed gives away gold medals and certificates yesterday among the students at the second convocation of the Asian University of Bangladesh. Photo: PID

"All the moral aspects should be integrated in the curriculum of higher learning", he told the second convocation of the Asian University of Bangladesh (AUB) at Osmany auditorium here.

Iajuddin said the institutions of higher learning should not be driven to commercially motivated subjects only, as this would lead students to compartmental academic programmes and limit them in acquiring universal knowledge.

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He laid emphasis on the need to "educate our people and turn them into human resources that can help us develop our economy and living standards."

The president said the government had enacted the Private University Act in 1992 to allow establishment of private universities for expansion of higher education

and "thus to save foreign exchange and to stop brain drain of our young generation."

He said: "Now we have a good number of private universities which have been imparting qualitative higher education in the country."

But he regretted that the academic atmosphere and physical facilities in such private universities were insufficient.

He urged the authorities concerned to think deeply regarding this matter to raise the academic standard of private universities.

The president, who is also the chancellor of AUB, congratulated the graduates of the university for their achievement.

Education Minister M Osman Farruk, State Minister for Education ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon, University Grants Commission chairman Dr M Asaduzzaman, Dhaka University vice chancellor and convocation speaker Prof SMA Faiz, and AUB vice chancellor Prof. Dr. Abdulhasan M. Sadeq also spoke on the occasion.