50pc RU English deptt students barred from final exams
Thursday, 28 October 2010
RU Correspondent
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Oct 27: The Examination committee of English department of Rajshahi University (RU) has not allowed about 50 per cent students of first year to sit for their final examinations as they were declared not qualified for attending enough for it.
Sources said the examination committee had made 48 students "dis-collegiate and 27 'non-collegiate' out of 95 students for not having required class attendance in first year.
The departmental examination committee has ordered the 'non-collegiate' students to submit Tk 2,000 as fine for making delay in filling up form for their final examination and 48 'dis-collegiate' students will be readmitted in the next year.
As a result, frustration is prevailing among the 'dis-collegiate' students, as the authorities did not hear any excuse from them.
A victim of the department said that her father is suffering from cancer and she had to visit her father in Dhaka often, so she missed classes. The department chairman misbehaved with her while she met him with the medical certificate of her father's illness, she alleged.
The students alleged that some teachers of the department did not take enough classes but the department did not take any action against them.
According to university rules, the department should publish the results within three months after the examination held but the English department failed to publish result even after eight to 10 months.
The chairman of English department Prof Shahidur Rahaman told this correspondent that students not having 60 per cent class attendance will not be allowed to sit for the final examinations as per the university rule.
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Oct 27: The Examination committee of English department of Rajshahi University (RU) has not allowed about 50 per cent students of first year to sit for their final examinations as they were declared not qualified for attending enough for it.
Sources said the examination committee had made 48 students "dis-collegiate and 27 'non-collegiate' out of 95 students for not having required class attendance in first year.
The departmental examination committee has ordered the 'non-collegiate' students to submit Tk 2,000 as fine for making delay in filling up form for their final examination and 48 'dis-collegiate' students will be readmitted in the next year.
As a result, frustration is prevailing among the 'dis-collegiate' students, as the authorities did not hear any excuse from them.
A victim of the department said that her father is suffering from cancer and she had to visit her father in Dhaka often, so she missed classes. The department chairman misbehaved with her while she met him with the medical certificate of her father's illness, she alleged.
The students alleged that some teachers of the department did not take enough classes but the department did not take any action against them.
According to university rules, the department should publish the results within three months after the examination held but the English department failed to publish result even after eight to 10 months.
The chairman of English department Prof Shahidur Rahaman told this correspondent that students not having 60 per cent class attendance will not be allowed to sit for the final examinations as per the university rule.