BANGLADESH: Campuses of foreign universities allowed

Despite opposition from Bangladesh's university regulator, the country's caretaker government passed a law last week allowing private individuals and institutions to establish campuses in the name of foreign universities - but only with prior permission from the government - reports The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Last November the regulator, the University Grants Commission, banned 56 foreign-university campuses in the capital Dhaka and in four other cities, for selling degrees and for not meeting quality standards. In its own draft of the new law, the commission had said no foreign universities should be allowed to set up campuses in Bangladesh. In a bid to streamline the growth of private universities' off-campus branches, the new law says universities can run campuses only in places the government has certified.
Full report on The Chronicle of Higher Education blog