DU to allow only fresh HSC graduates

The Dhaka University authorities today decided to allow only the freshly passed HSC candidates to sit for admission tests from upcoming 2015-16 academic sessions.
"Aspirants who fail to enroll at the university in their HSC passing year will not be eligible to apply at Dhaka University the following year," Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique, vice-chancellor of the university, told The Daily Star over phone.
The decision came at a meeting of the admission committee at the university's senate building this morning.
Thereby, students who have passed HSC in 2014 will not be eligible for apply to sit for admission test for the 2015-16 academic session, the VC said.
The university authorities have moved for the decision a bid to discourage coaching system and lessen the 'unequal' competition between the regular and irregular students, Arefin opined.
It has also found most of those who have been detained for fraudulence in the admission test are of second-time admission seekers, Arefin resented.
Meanwhile, the requirements for English department enrolment have been eased by reducing to 18 from 20 points in General English and 8 from 15 in Elective English in the admission test for the current session as only two students obtained for qualifying marks to enroll at the department.
"Even if seats remain vacant in the department, we will take in students with requirement from Gha unit," he said.
English department is to enroll 150 students for the current session, and 125 among them are to come from those who sat the 'Kha' unit tests under the Arts Faculty.
Of the total 40,565 examinees in 'Kha' unit admission test, 22,000 failed in English and only two students qualified to be enrolled in the university's English department for the 2014-15 session.
The university had also made it compulsory for the applicants to obtain at least 15 marks in 'Elective English', apart from getting the usual 20 marks in the general English, to be enrolled in the department.
Of the 40,565 examinees, only 1,364 took the 'Elective English' test.