Students of Rajshahi University have alleged that the authorities of their university were selling certificates in the name of providing evening courses, instead of developing the quality of existing courses.
Recently the university issued a circular to introduce evening master’s courses at seven departments under the Social Science faculty.
Under the banner of “Progressive Students Alliance” the students called a press conference yesterday where they alleged that the university authorities were trying to sell certificates in exchange of huge sums of money.
They also alleged that without developing the quality of the regular courses the authorities had taken initiatives to introduce evening courses just to draw financial benefits for the teachers.
Terming the newly launched evening course as a “business-oriented programme,” they said quality of education was likely to decline if a public university opted for issuing private certificates.
The leaders of the alliance called the authorities concerned to discard the ongoing EMBA (Evening Masters in Business Administration) and ELLM (Evening Masters of Law) programmes and scrap the decision to introduce evening courses.
They vowed to go for a tougher movement on campus if their demands were not fulfilled.
Earlier in 2010, the university authorities took an initiative to introduce a two-year long evening masters but had to back off in the wake of students’ protests.
Abdullah-al-Muiz, general secretary of Chhatra Federation RU unit, read out the written statement at the press conference.
Asaduzzaman Asad, the co-coordinator of Progressive Students’ Alliance, Ayatullah Khomeni and Abu Sufian Bakhshi, the president and general secretary of Chhatra Union RU unit respectively were present among others.