The BNP-Jamaat backed 'white-panel' teachers of Dhaka University (DU) will back the madrasa students on the issue of relaxing admission criteria of several departments of the university for them.
The white-panel teachers yesterday said they would urge DU Vice Chancellor Prof SMA Faiz to ask the departments concerned to 'cancel' or 'relax' the conditions that disqualify the madrasa students from getting admission to several departments of the university.
"We shall meet the vice chancellor today at 12:30pm and urge him to ask the departments concerned to revise the admission criteria," said white-panel convener Prof Sadrul Amin while talking to The Daily Star last night.
The white panel teachers made the decision after a three-hour-long meeting at the teachers' lounge at the arts building last night.
Seven departments -- Department of English, Bengali, Economics, Mass Communication and Journalism, International Relations, Women and Gender Studies and Linguistics -- under the arts and social science faculties have introduced some conditions that disqualify the madrasa students from admission to those departments.
The meeting, however, condemned the attack on the VC office by madrasa students demanding cancellation of the university authorities'
Talking to The Daily Star on Tuesday, the chairmen of four out of the seven departments, said they decided to introduce the conditions to maintain academic standards not to exclude madrasa students from the admission process.
However, Prof Amin, also the dean of the arts faculty, said academic standards would not be hampered if the madrasa students get admitted to those departments.
"I don't believe that the academic standards would be hampered. Madrasa students can do well in those departments," Prof Amin added.
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