Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 4 Num 344 Wed. May 19, 2004  
   
Letters to Editor


"Attitude towards private universities"


In response to my letter "Attitude towards private universities", dated 7/5/04, Mr. Saif wrote on 9/5/04.To that reference, I want to remove some of his misconceptions. First, the mismatch that he has found between 'public' and 'private' is very clear -- by the word public I meant government universities, and private university is very easy to understand.

Second, I want to talk about the issue of teachers on which Mr. Saif has commented . I have also studied in a government university and now I am teaching in a private university. But I have no such complaint about any circumstances. In fact, I wanted to change the attitude of some people who still have some negative ideas about private universities.

Mr. Saif has said that the teachers from public universities get some extra bucks from private universities, though they show poor performance in teaching. I disagree with that point. We know that public university teachers do not get a high amount of salary, so, if they can manage to teach in private universities out of their official time, then nobody should object. And good teachers always teach well. So, there must be no wrong assessment of the performance of the teachers. Third, Mr. Saif has also mentioned about the forged certificates of foreign degrees of some teachers in a few universities. I don't know how far it is true. Last of all, Mr. Saif has grumbled about the high costs of education. If the middle class and higher middle-class people can afford the education cost in private universities for their children, then the rate of education would rise up very soon and it would be a very good sign for our country.

Besides, every year many students, who cannot enter government universities, do get admitted to private universities without any session jam. We should hope for the best so that students can study without session jam in both government and private universities.