Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has refused to take combined admission test

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has refused to take combined admission test with other public universities. Dhaka University is also likely to take the same decision in its academic meeting scheduled on 24 February,2020. Jahangirnagar University and Cittagong University are not taken any decision yet.

The academic council of BUET in a meeting on Wednesday evening unanimously decided to continue with its conventional system arguing it the best way of selecting the freshers, the university director of students welfare Mizanur Rahman told New Age on Thursday.

Dhaka University vice-chancellor M Aktaruzzaman said that the deans and senior teachers had already given opinion for not to go for the combined entrance exam system to ‘avoid possible troubles during the admission process of the university having so many faculties and institutes.’

‘The opinion is likely to be approved in the academic council meeting on February 24,’ he said.

Jahangirnagar University’s academic council on February 16 could not take any decision on the issue rather decided to see decisions of BUET and Dhaka University, the university’s acting registrar Rahima Kaniz said.

A Chittagong University teacher said that the university would follow the Dhaka University’s decision.

Vice-chancellors of BUET, Dhaka University, Jahangirnagar University and Chittagong University told the February 12 meeting of the UGC that they would inform the commission of their decision consulting their academic councils.

The UGC and the University Council, a platform of the vice-chancellors of public universities, last week decided to hold the combined entrance exams from the next academic  year as suggested by the president Abdul Hamid to avoid sufferings of the students and their parents who needed to go from one universities to another across the country for taking admission tests.

‘We will proceed even if BUET and some other universities not include themselves in the noble initiative,’ said University Council president Kamal Uddin Ahamed, also vice-chancellor of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University.

The UGC chairman Kazi Shahidullah said that he would invite all the vice-chancellors of the public universities on February 26 at his office to get their decisions.

‘We will proceed with the proposed system in the greater interest of the people despite reluctance of some universities,’  he said.

Last year, the central admission test was introduced at all the agricultural universities and it was praised by all, Shaidullah said.