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Public varsities’ existing admission test should go
WHEN the present admission test system at public universities would make a hassle for the students who passed the Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations this year, the limited number of seats these universities offer to the deserving admission seekers would mount their worries.
The complicated and troublesome test will be in place this time, too, because of the indecision of the authorities concerned. Under the present system, more than 2.5 lakh students who got GPA 5 and 4 will seek admission and sit for separate tests in separate public universities in different districts involving a good amount of time, costs and travels.
But such hassles could be avoided, if the decision for a uniform admission test was implemented immediately, although the Education Ministry decided seven years ago on introduction of this new uniform system, known as ‘cluster system’, to ease hassles of the admission seekers and their guardians.
The ‘cluster system’ is a uniform admission test that would be held centrally. For example, students would take one test for a place in any of the science and technology universities and another test for a place in any of the agriculture universities.
Much to the annoyance and frustration of the admission seekers and their guardians, this cluster system is not going to be in place soon as it is considered by many high-ups and teachers ‘an obstacle to their brisk business’.
Newspaper report suggests even after a directive from no less than a personality who heads the state late last year to go for the system’s introduction, a number of public universities are opposed to it since the existing one is directly linked to some financial benefits.
According to an official at the University Grants Commission, the regulatory body of the country’s 37 public universities, many teachers who are involved in the admission process from holding the tests to checking answer scripts earn a good amount of money by selling admission forms to the candidates.
The July 15 meeting organised by the Association of Universities of Bangladesh that decided on the dates of admission tests at different universities under the existing system would not mitigate the sufferings of the admission seekers rather it would encourage the admission form sales business.
We seek intervention from the highest authority to introduce the cluster system for the huge number of the students who are eligible to apply to a university at a time when seats are very limited at the places of higher education.
All the universities have only 60,000 seats for new students. We also urge the authorities concerned to look into how they can enhance the number of such seats.
The complicated and troublesome test will be in place this time, too, because of the indecision of the authorities concerned. Under the present system, more than 2.5 lakh students who got GPA 5 and 4 will seek admission and sit for separate tests in separate public universities in different districts involving a good amount of time, costs and travels.
But such hassles could be avoided, if the decision for a uniform admission test was implemented immediately, although the Education Ministry decided seven years ago on introduction of this new uniform system, known as ‘cluster system’, to ease hassles of the admission seekers and their guardians.
The ‘cluster system’ is a uniform admission test that would be held centrally. For example, students would take one test for a place in any of the science and technology universities and another test for a place in any of the agriculture universities.
Much to the annoyance and frustration of the admission seekers and their guardians, this cluster system is not going to be in place soon as it is considered by many high-ups and teachers ‘an obstacle to their brisk business’.
Newspaper report suggests even after a directive from no less than a personality who heads the state late last year to go for the system’s introduction, a number of public universities are opposed to it since the existing one is directly linked to some financial benefits.
According to an official at the University Grants Commission, the regulatory body of the country’s 37 public universities, many teachers who are involved in the admission process from holding the tests to checking answer scripts earn a good amount of money by selling admission forms to the candidates.
The July 15 meeting organised by the Association of Universities of Bangladesh that decided on the dates of admission tests at different universities under the existing system would not mitigate the sufferings of the admission seekers rather it would encourage the admission form sales business.
We seek intervention from the highest authority to introduce the cluster system for the huge number of the students who are eligible to apply to a university at a time when seats are very limited at the places of higher education.
All the universities have only 60,000 seats for new students. We also urge the authorities concerned to look into how they can enhance the number of such seats.
