Mohammad A Karim

Democracy needs its voters; and in the case of Dhaka University, this meant recruiting enough of the right kind of voters

Getting ranked higher will never be easy without rectifying the institutions significantly.

It is far too easy to explain away the crisis in Bangladeshi universities saying there’s a lack of money to fund research, books, laboratories and salary.

The 2011 data-driven assessment of Dhaka University (DU) as to whether it can turn itself around by 2021 was met with silence except for the publication of “University of Dhaka: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking” in 2016. The editors hoped,