Editorial Desk :
Registering their protest against the attack on student protesters, who have been demanding Vice-Chancellor Farzana Islam’s removal, four teachers of Jahangirnagar University resigned from the executive board of Jahangirnagar University Teachers’ Association (JUTA) on Tuesday.
They are JUTA’s General Secretary Prof Md Sohel Rana, Treasurer Prof Monowar Hossain Tuhin, member Prof Mahbub Kabir, and Prof Sayeed Ferdous. They were scheduled to send resignation letter to association’s President Prof Ajit Kumar same day.
Earlier on Tuesday, the authorities shut down the university for an indefinite period after BCL activists attacked protesters who demanded VC’s resignation. At least 25 persons were injured in the attack. Of them, eight were teachers, three were journalists and the rest were students.
Meanwhile, the JU authority announced that it will call police if students fail to vacate dormitories by the 3:30 pm deadline on Wednesday. The provost committee took the decision on Wednesday amid ongoing protests against the VC for alleged corruption. Such an easy decision exemplifies lack of sensitivity about the inconvenience of female students.
JU VC has said that she was ‘grateful’ to the members of BCL for freeing her from the protesting students who took position in front of her residence from Monday evening. She also claimed that the graft allegations raised against her were untrue, meant to humiliate and harass her. “I will accept whatever punishment given to me if the allegations are proven,” she said.
It’s really surprising when VC in a clear voice praises the BCL men for freeing her from the ‘captivity’ of her own students. It is not too long when the same VC had raised allegation against the BCL top leaders for demanding extortion money from university’s development projects.
We doubt whether there is any sensible person in the government to realise the actual situation that has been prevailing at JU and many other public universities. The government has in an organised way harmed higher education by encouraging criminal activities among students of its own party.
There is no academic atmosphere in the JU at present. General students have been protesting demanding removal of the VC. Now university is closed. Students are forced to quit the halls. But who bothers!
Having described the awful crisis prevailing in the public universities all over the country, we find it hopeful and encouraging that four teachers of JU have resigned in sympathy with wrong being done to their students.
The teachers are expected not to be influenced by politics in maintaining teacher-student relationship at universities. Teachers must always be guides and philosophers to the students. This cordial and constructive relationship has broken down to a large extent because of corruption-based power mongering politics.
The teachers of the universities must come forward to save university education for our students and future leaders.
Registering their protest against the attack on student protesters, who have been demanding Vice-Chancellor Farzana Islam’s removal, four teachers of Jahangirnagar University resigned from the executive board of Jahangirnagar University Teachers’ Association (JUTA) on Tuesday.
They are JUTA’s General Secretary Prof Md Sohel Rana, Treasurer Prof Monowar Hossain Tuhin, member Prof Mahbub Kabir, and Prof Sayeed Ferdous. They were scheduled to send resignation letter to association’s President Prof Ajit Kumar same day.
Earlier on Tuesday, the authorities shut down the university for an indefinite period after BCL activists attacked protesters who demanded VC’s resignation. At least 25 persons were injured in the attack. Of them, eight were teachers, three were journalists and the rest were students.
Meanwhile, the JU authority announced that it will call police if students fail to vacate dormitories by the 3:30 pm deadline on Wednesday. The provost committee took the decision on Wednesday amid ongoing protests against the VC for alleged corruption. Such an easy decision exemplifies lack of sensitivity about the inconvenience of female students.
JU VC has said that she was ‘grateful’ to the members of BCL for freeing her from the protesting students who took position in front of her residence from Monday evening. She also claimed that the graft allegations raised against her were untrue, meant to humiliate and harass her. “I will accept whatever punishment given to me if the allegations are proven,” she said.
It’s really surprising when VC in a clear voice praises the BCL men for freeing her from the ‘captivity’ of her own students. It is not too long when the same VC had raised allegation against the BCL top leaders for demanding extortion money from university’s development projects.
We doubt whether there is any sensible person in the government to realise the actual situation that has been prevailing at JU and many other public universities. The government has in an organised way harmed higher education by encouraging criminal activities among students of its own party.
There is no academic atmosphere in the JU at present. General students have been protesting demanding removal of the VC. Now university is closed. Students are forced to quit the halls. But who bothers!
Having described the awful crisis prevailing in the public universities all over the country, we find it hopeful and encouraging that four teachers of JU have resigned in sympathy with wrong being done to their students.
The teachers are expected not to be influenced by politics in maintaining teacher-student relationship at universities. Teachers must always be guides and philosophers to the students. This cordial and constructive relationship has broken down to a large extent because of corruption-based power mongering politics.
The teachers of the universities must come forward to save university education for our students and future leaders.
