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Shifting examination dates

A challenge before Shahjalal University
12 July 2003
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If someone told us that thanks to student agitation, final examinations at a premier university of the country had been delayed in seven consecutive years, we would simply brush it off as absurd. But the irony is it is not. A report in the Bangla daily Prothom Alo has it that every year when the final exams at Shahjalal Science and Technology University in Sylhet got nearer ruling party student wing would start a movement to change the scheduled test dates. And this has been going on, according to the report, for the last seven years encompassing a part of the AL rule! Needless to say, the abnormal situation left the teachers, students and their parents frustrated and angry.

This history of changing exam dates through strikes and agitation on the campus evidently has had nothing to do with the welfare of students. How could a small number of students who apparently have very little interest in studies, hold the fate of hundreds of others in ransom? Because of the stalemate in the campus, the university remained closed for almost 440 days over the last seven years. In addition, the academic career of the students has been delayed by two years!

The university authority has to do some serious thinking to bring about a change in terms of academic discipline. The final exams for this year have already been postponed for a week. We hope, at least this time the authority would show some grit and reverse the pattern of shifting examination dates in consideration of the fact that it could set a bad precedent for other institutions. We must remember Shahjalal University cannot compromise its position as a front-ranking science and technology institution in the country.

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