ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 explores how a diverse range of financial strategies adopted in both public and private universities helped mitigate the financial burden of higher education in Bangladesh. It argues that the government has developed a ‘cost-sharing’ approach in a way that not only ensures that the government has little or no financial responsibility for private universities, but also offloads public higher education costs to its end users. It also explores the micro-politics of adopting these different financial approaches across the entire higher education sector and the ways in which different and successive governments have justified and legitimised higher education as an end-users-pay system in both private and public universities.
