Trackback URL
Download PDF Two weeks into the unscheduled closure of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), the impasse continues while uncertainty looms over holding examinations and beginning new terms, to add to the existing session jam of the country’s premier technology university.
The Buet authorities declared the university closed sine die on July 31 following a violent student movement for deferment of examinations.
Several student organisations and a platform of guardians have urged the authorities to reopen the university and declare fresh schedule for examinations as early as possible in consideration of the future of thousands of students.
Students of Term-2 under Level-4 of different faculties at a press conference yesterday urged the authorities to hold their examinations, saying that their future is falling into uncertainty due to the unscheduled closure.
Bangladesh Abhibhabak Parishad, a platform of guardians of students studying at different universities and colleges, at a press conference last week said the unscheduled closure of the Buet is tarnishing its image abroad.
Meanwhile, Buet Vice Chancellor Prof M Alee Murtuza declined to mention any possible date to reopen the university.
Sources at the university administration, however, said authorities might reopen the university after ‘disciplinary actions’ against the students ‘responsible for making the campus unstable’.
To identify the responsible students, Buet authorities on August 2 formed a committee that got three weeks to submit its report.
Several students talking to this correspondent expressed the fear that the committee may identify some innocent students as responsible for the violence on July 30 night.
The vice chancellor, however, denied any possibility of such incident.
The authorities allowed holding some postgraduate examinations during the closure, Students’ Welfare Director of Buet Prof M Monowar Hossain said.
Asked about the demand of students of Term-2 under Level-4, he said, “It is the students who demonstrated for deferment of the examinations and now they are demanding fresh schedule.”
At least 30 people were injured when the students demonstrating for deferment of examinations clashed with the police on the Buet campus on July 30.
The authorities accused the demonstrators of vandalising about 15 cars of teachers and their houses at teachers’ quarters during the violent clash on the night.
Comments are not moderated and only expresses personal views of visitors. BangladeshNews.com.bd is not responsible for commets posted by visitors.
Leave a Reply