Universities must be free from the shackles of politicization

I attended a two-day convention titled “What Type of University We Want: Higher Education, Policy and Structure” which was organized by University Teachers’ Network - a group of socially conscious and academically upfront university teachers - at Social Science gallery of Jahangirnagar University on April 11-12, 2019. Teachers from different universities, both public and private, attended the convention to discuss how to improve the quality of education at the country’s higher education institutions and to ensure intellectual/progressive thinking at universities. As the convener, Professor Sayeed Ferdous of Anthropology Department at Jahangi…