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The Bangladesh Technical Education Board has sought explanations from 112 technical education institutions over their failure to enrol students for three consecutive years, warning that their teaching approvals and admission activities could be cancelled.
The institutions include 86 providers of diploma programmes in engineering, textile and agriculture, and 26 institutions offering the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) in Business Management and Technology (BMT).
The board issued separate notices on Monday, October 19, giving the institutions seven working days to explain why their teaching approvals and admission activities should not be cancelled.
According to the notices, the 112 institutions under the board have not conducted student admission activities for the past three years. The conditions for granting teaching approval stipulate that approval may be cancelled if an institution fails to enrol students for three consecutive years.
The notices also refer to Rule 5.4 of the 2020 policy on the establishment, teaching approval and recognition of private technical education institutions offering diploma-level programmes under the Bangladesh Technical Education Board.
Under the rule, the board may cancel teaching approval, subject to government approval, if an institution fails to meet the prescribed requirements within the stipulated period. These include maintaining academic results, infrastructure, qualified teachers and staff, a management committee, furniture, equipment and library facilities, as well as other conditions imposed when teaching approval was granted.
The board has asked the institutions to explain within seven working days why their admission activities should be suspended from the 2027–28 academic session and their teaching approvals cancelled or withdrawn.
The board had previously issued notices to the institutions on two occasions seeking explanations over their failure to enrol students.