Sylhet Agricultural University came to a standstill on Wednesday due to agitation by students demanding an adjustment in the credit course system introduced in 2009-10.
They oppose the decision of the university authorities not to promote a student if he or she fails in more than 20 per cent examinations of the credit courses in a semester.
Instead they want that promotion could be denied if a student fails in 40 per cent of the credit courses in a semester.
The students began their demonstration in the morning after locking the administrative and academic buildings.
They forced the university authorities to suspend all administrative and academic activities as well as scheduled examinations, campus sources said.
They set used tyres on fire in front of the buildings and at the roundabouts.
They held rallies and paraded on the campus opposing the decision of the university authorities not to promote a student if he or she fails in more than 20 per cent examinations of the credit courses in a semester.
Arriving on the campus teachers had to take shelter at the auditorium as it rained incessantly.
Following a proposal of the Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders for sitting with the university authorities to put an end to the existing students unrest on the campus, the agitated students agreed to unlock the administrative building at around 3-00pm, the campus sources said.
After a 2-hour long meeting between the university administration and the university unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League, associate student front of the ruling Awami League, the authorities agreed in principle to consider the students' demand of adjustment in the existing credit course system, sources present at the meeting said.
The authorities said that took three days for taking a decision on the issue.
They said that they would inform the students about the decision on Sunday as the university would remain closed from Thursday to Saturday due to Shab-e Meraj and week-end holidays.
The proctor, Anwar Hossein and teachers' association president and student affairs adviser Jamal Uddin Bhuiyan, the SAU chapter of BCL acting president Rashed Ahmed, acting general secretary Shamim Molla, organising secretay Faruq Hosen, AMS Kibria Hall unit president Nizam Uddin and secretary Debarshi Roy and Humayun Rashid Hall unit president Drubajoyati Roy and secretary Pratik Mazumdar Rahul, attended the meeting, among others.
When contacted, the proctor told New Age that the authorities listened to the students' demand.
He said, 'We would let them to know about our decision on the next working day.'
The student representatives claimed that they would wait until Sunday morning to about the decision the authorities take.
They said that they would resume their movement, if the demands were not met.
On June 22, the agitations were begun by two batches of students, admitted after introduction of the new system.
Source : New Age
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