ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 discusses the governance system of higher education by considering the key feature of the New Public Management (NPM) approach in Bangladesh. This approach takes the form of the retention of the centrality of government control and the application of this control across both public and private universities. The chapter argues that although NPM as a governance system originally emerged from the private management model and has been applied to public sector in order to ensure public accountability of state-run universities in the West, arguably in Bangladesh a distinctly localised form of NPM has developed over the last three decades. It explores how state involvement in the governance of the private universities has been justified and extended significantly in the noughties, so that to date private universities in Bangladesh are significantly different organisations from their original manifestation.
