Improvement examinees

The National University in spite of repeated appeals (through formal applications and appeals published in the national dailies) has not yet allowed the improvement examinees of 1994 and 1995 to pick-up facility. But the improvement examinees of 1996 were allowed to pick-up facility upon representation made by some examinees of Dhaka College, Jagannath College, Titumir College and Eden College. The decision to give them such facility was taken in the 34th meeting of the academic council of the NU held on 3-4-2002. The improvement examinees of 1997 also got the facility to procure as per decision of the 44th meeting of the academic council held on 15-9-02. The improvement examination of 1997 was held in 2001 and the Academic Council of NU was considerate enough to apply the pick-up facility to all the improvement examinees of 1997, who were regular examinees of 1996,1995,1994 and 1993. The resolution of the 44th academic council's meeting did not categorically mention any particular year previous to 1997 to be eligible for the application to pick-up. The absence of the mention of any particular year previous to 1997 clearly implies that the regular examinees of any year previous to 1997 are entitled to the pick-up system. Any regular examinee of 1993 or 1994, who has appeared as an improvement examinee in 1994 or 1995 was also included. It can be mentioned here that the improvement examinees of 1994,1995,1996 and 1997 -- all followed the same syllabus and system of examination under Dhaka, Rajshahi and Chittagong University. Therefore, the facility of pick-up deserves to be uniformly applied to the improvement examinees of all these years, so there is no justification in depriving any examinees of these years. We are convinced that the Academic Council had no intention to exclude any of them deliberately; the apparent exclusion of the examinees of 1993,1994 and 1995 might have been due to the absence of any representation by the examinees of the years concerned.

In this respect, the principals of all the honours level colleges had a vital role to play. It was not only their official responsibility but also a moral obligation to come to the aid of their students. They could have prepared lists of improvement examinees of these years of their respective colleges subject-wise and year-wise and then sent them to the NU for application of pick-up system. As far as we know there are nearly one hundred colleges under NU. If each college has at least five improvement examinees, the total number of examinees of a particular year would come, more or less, to five hundred. The NU could not in that case neglect the issue if such a huge number of applications were formally submitted through proper channel of the colleges on their own initiative and the innocent examinees would not have to face any problem. I would therefore request the respected principals of all the honours level colleges to prepare lists of improvement examinees of 1994 and 1995 subject-wise and submit them to the NU authorities. The principals are the guardians of the students; they are expected to render this service to the students.