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We are engaged in private universities at the cost of our own students

Dr. Mizanur Rahman Professor & former Chairman
Law Desk: Students said that teaching method of the department is very traditional and the teachers are focused only few students of the class. What is your comment?
M. Rahman: We can not and must not shy on to disclose the problem. I must say that most of students deprived of teacher's attention. Reasons behind the problem are firstly that teachers themselves are not well trained; they do not have sufficient skills of communication. Teachers should be trained before allowed to lecture in the class. Here one is appointed as a teacher who completed his education just now. But in abroad he or she has to work
as a junior teacher and after acquiring sufficient skill in teaching they are allowed to lecture in the class. We have big classroom with almost 120 students. Obviously a teacher is unable to communicate every student of the class. They are only depending on delivering lecture. Since teachers are engaged in delivering lectures they usually depend on the class notes which he or she prepared during student life without refreshing it with recent development.
Secondly, we do not have the modern equipment. Audio visual scene is not available here. We do not have the opportunity to use projector in the class. So we only depend on the traditional method of delivering lecture and failed to attract students' attention. This is I can say an anti-learning process.
Law desk: According to students there is a huge communication gap between students and teachers and students don't have any participatory role.
M. Rahman: This problem lies on the whole university. We may talk about the DUCSU. Obviously students' participation in DUCSU is out of question now. The participatory students are belonging to different political parties. This is reflected in the department of law. We don't have any students' participation whether it is good or bad. There is a huge communication gap between students and teachers. The problem is, firstly, the teachers- student's ratio. We have only 35 teachers against the six or seven hundred students. It is not possible to make a friendly relationship with all the students in this situation. Teachers and students must follow certain standard, which demand that every member of the community should behave rationally and reasonably. But this is absent among most of the members of the community of law department. This hinders development of proactive teachers-students relationship.
Law desk: The department of law does not publish journal regularly, teachers also don't have regular publication.
M.Rahman: In the western universities especially in the USA there are journals of law which are edited by students containing articles written by any member of the faculty. Bur this is absolutely absent in our department. We have a journal (Dhaka University Studies, part- F) which is known as law journal. But the peculiarity is that this journal is "closed" journal. Articles are written only by the teachers of the department. We failed to publish it for the last three years. The reason may be firstly that we did not have sufficient articles. But why? Secondly there is an editorial board which decides the articles to be published. But it is a matter of fact that the editor himself decides it which violates the very purpose of the editorial board. As Dean of the faculty is the editor of the journal and since he is busy in many different works it is quite hard for him to concentrate publishing journal regularly.
I don't see any reason not to publish articles of students, which is worthy of published.
Law desk: Most of students alleged that the teachers are indulged in politics rather than studies and they also engaged in Private Universities.
M.Rahman: I usually ask my students to see whether a particular teacher is operating his course duly, regularly. Whether he teaches the course or simply gossiping, whether the teacher is available for the students. It is not matter that a teacher has particular political ideology. It is necessary that whether the teacher is capable and knowledgeable to conduct a course, whether he is given sufficient time to solve the queries of students. It is not a problem if they conduct their duties entrusted to them.
It is unfortunate that almost all our teachers are busy in taking class in the private universities depriving the students of the department. There is no tradition to take tutorial class, which is essential for the students. We are engaged in the private universities or firm at the cost of our own students. We do not expend a little bit of our time for our students. The teachers are allowed to do some work out side but the interest of the students should not wave aside.