Sylhet Agricultural University students on Sunday formed a human chain in the Sylhet city as a part of their continued movement, demanding more flexible rules to pass a semester.
Some 300 first and second semester students of the university, boycotting their classes and examinations, participated in the human chain held in front of the Central Shaheed Minar at about 3:00pm.
The speakers at the programme called on their vice-chancellor to take steps to meet their demands.
SAU student-affairs adviser Jamal Uddin Bhuiyan told New Age that a meeting was scheduled to be held between the authorities and the student representatives in the evening to discuss the situation.
The students said that the four-year Bachelor of Science (honours) programme of the university was divided into eight academic semesters and each semester had 16 credit-course on average assigned to it.
According to the credit-course system, which the university introduced from its 2009-10 session, one does not pass a semester if one fails in more than 20 per cent credit-course, a provision the agitating students called too rigorous for them.
They had demanded that the authorities double the limit, enabling the students to pass the semester even if they fail up to 40 per cent credit-course assigned to it.
The students launched the movement on June 22.
Source : New Age
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