Future of DU
As the leader of country's highest seats for learning, Dhaka University, of late, has been the centre of lot of critical attention. A very welcome concern about the unabated deterioration in the standard and atmospherics of educational institutions seems to have coloured our social imagination as never before. Viewed from one angle, it is a pity though that at a time when most other nations are well into their preparations for entering the new millennium, we are still stuck with the basics. So much so that we are still in search of a proper perspective in this field. However, more than our comparative backwardness what really adds to our frustration is the lack of initiative matching the directional discourses or discussions that have taken place so far. All the wise words have gone a-begging due to the lack of real action. It seems no quarter is sincere enough to own its responsibility in the problem and take the field first to get things right. Allowed to continue, this trend will defeat the idea of freeing the universities from the inefficiency syndrome that they have been suffering from for quite some time now. In this general drama of inaction, we hope Saturday's Roundtable on "Dhaka University on the threshold of the 21st century" cohosted by the Dhaka University Alumni Association will provide the much missed dynamism and set the ball rolling in the right direction. In its eagerness to show the alma mater a way out of the doldrums it is in, Dhaka University Alumni Association has taken a very praiseworthy initiative. But this obligative effort should not be allowed to rot in ineffectuality. It has to be whipped up into a creative energy, a white heat that will pave the way for some action. We suggest that the DU Alumni Association build on its initiative and make its base as broad as possible by including all the alumni of the institution. A national convention can be called to bring the problem under an even sharper focus around our entry into the 21st century. The whole exercise has the potential of metamorphosing into a moral force. Can we get a move on in that direction?
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