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Buet slips into session jam

Protesters 'not to negotiate', VC 'not to quit’

Wasim Bin Habib ^Palash Rahman
The deadlock between the anti-VC agitators and the administration might plunge Buet into a severe session jam causing irreparable loss to the academic lives of around 10,000 students.
Already lagging behind by three to six months mainly due to unscheduled closures, students say another six months to one year of their academic calendar will be
wasted if the situation remains unchanged.
Yesterday, teachers, students and staff continued their sit-in in front of the Buet administrative building for the third consecutive day to press home their 16-point demand including removal of the VC and his deputy.
The Buet Teachers Association, which spearheads the demonstrations, has once again ruled out discussion with the
FROM PAGE 1 vice-chancellor although Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called for an end to the standoff through talks.
However, the teachers said, they can sit with the government high-ups.
Vice-Chancellor Prof Nazrul Islam said he was yet to propose talks with the agitating teachers. He will sit with them today or tomorrow.
Like the first two days, the students in the sit-in yesterday were passing time by singing, gaming and chanting slogans against the two administration bosses.
At present, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has five batches although there should have been four, many students toldThe Daily Star.
A number of Buet students go to foreign universities for higher education after graduation. But they fear they would miss the March session at those universities, as their terms might not be complete in time because of a 44-day vacation announced by the authorities ahead of schedule.
They said the 2011-12 academic year students, who began their classes in May, are supposed to lake their first-term final examination in the third week of September.
"But that has become uncertain. If the situation drags on, our exams are likely to end in December. But that too is not certain," said a student of 2011-12 session, preferring anonymity-
"In the other engineering universities, students of the same session have already completed their first semester."
The students said they have already been caught in session jam due to an unscheduled closure for 34 days following a clash in June 2010 and subsequent movement against Chhatra League in 2011.
Also, over a week's class boycotts by teachers early this year for extension of their retirement age to 65 years and a 28-day work abstention from April 7 also hampered academic activities of the leading engineering university.
"And now the 44-day closure means further session jam for six months to one year," a student of civil
engineering department said.
The university was supposed to be closed from August 11 to August 24, according to the academic calendar. And after the vacation, there was supposed to be a two-week preparatory leave.
The students of 2007-2008 academic year are the worst sufferers. They started their classes on January 19, 2008 and their graduation was supposed to be complete this year. "But it seems our examination will end in December," one of them said.
Al the same time, the students of 2008-2009 session are now doing their second semester of third year although they are supposed to be in the first semester of fourth year.
Currently, there are two batches in the second year. The 2009-1010 session students, now in the third year's first semester, were supposed to be doing the third year’s first semester. The 2010-2011 students, now in the first semester of second year, were supposed to be in the second semester of second year.