DU deans' meet on madrasah students' admission ends without decision
Sunday, 26 October 2008
DU Correspondent
The deans committee meeting of Dhaka University (DU) ended Saturday without any concrete result on admission complexities of madrasah students in seven departments of the university.
DU Vice-Chancellor SMA Faiz presided over the meeting which lasted for three hours beginning at 12:30 pm.
Sources said the meeting asked Arts Faculty Dean and white panel convener Sadrul Amin and Social Sciences Faculty Dean Harun-or-Rashid to resolve the issue through discussion with the departments concerned.
Emerging from the meeting, Sadrul Amin said the new admission rule about madrasah students is completely undemocratic, discriminatory and unconstitutional.
'Blue panel' convenor Harun-or-Rashid said the departments concerned set the new admission conditions for the qualitative change of education at the university.
The BNP-Jamaat backed 'white panel' is opposing the new admission rules barring madrasah students from getting admitted into the seven departments. But the pro-Awami League 'blue panel' said the departments are completely independent to set any criteria for admission.
The madrasah-background students of DU under the banner of Committee to Protect Rights of Madrasah Students have been agitating throughout the country for the past four days protesting the DU decision to stop them from getting admitted into seven departments.
The deans committee meeting of Dhaka University (DU) ended Saturday without any concrete result on admission complexities of madrasah students in seven departments of the university.
DU Vice-Chancellor SMA Faiz presided over the meeting which lasted for three hours beginning at 12:30 pm.
Sources said the meeting asked Arts Faculty Dean and white panel convener Sadrul Amin and Social Sciences Faculty Dean Harun-or-Rashid to resolve the issue through discussion with the departments concerned.
Emerging from the meeting, Sadrul Amin said the new admission rule about madrasah students is completely undemocratic, discriminatory and unconstitutional.
'Blue panel' convenor Harun-or-Rashid said the departments concerned set the new admission conditions for the qualitative change of education at the university.
The BNP-Jamaat backed 'white panel' is opposing the new admission rules barring madrasah students from getting admitted into the seven departments. But the pro-Awami League 'blue panel' said the departments are completely independent to set any criteria for admission.
The madrasah-background students of DU under the banner of Committee to Protect Rights of Madrasah Students have been agitating throughout the country for the past four days protesting the DU decision to stop them from getting admitted into seven departments.