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The Dean’s Committee of Dhaka University has made a preliminary decision not to take the admissions test for Unit D of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Unit F of the Faculty of Fine Arts from next academic year (2021- 22). The Socialist Student Front (Marxist) believes that the outcome of such a decision will be “severely detrimental” to higher education.
Salman Siddiqui, president of the Dhaka University branch of the Student Front, and Pragati Barman Tama, general secretary, made the remarks in a joint statement sent to the media on Monday.
At the meeting of the University Deans Committee on Sunday morning, the rector reported on the plan to take the admission test in three units instead of five units from the next academic year. Akhtaruzzaman 6 However, in the current academic year (2020-21), the exams will be taken in five units according to the above rules.
The statement of the Socialist Student Front said that, according to the decision of the university administration, those who have studied in the department will occupy the specific unit for that department, that is, a unit for the science department, a unit B for the humanities department and unit ‘C’ for the business education department. The category can be changed later based on the results of this test. In other words, a student will be considered eligible for admission to departments such as Anthropology, History and Culture of Islam or Marketing by taking exams in Physics, Chemistry, etc. But it is not possible to verify the real merit in this way. If you want to be admitted to a department of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, you must take an exam in the corresponding subject. Apart from that, the admission test of the Faculty of Fine Arts, that is, Unit F, is a kind of specialized admission test. The decision to cancel that exam and admit him to the Faculty of Fine Arts with the unit B exam would be unreasonable and indicative of extreme myopia. The consequences of such a decision at the higher education level would be fatally damaging.
