VC's initiatives: Session jam comes to zero at CU

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Mohammad Juel, CU :
The initiatives taken by the Vice-Chancellor of Chittagong University to cut the session jam, has already started to see fruitful as session jam of many of the departments has cut off and a mentionable number declining gradually. A total of 17 departments’ session jam has declined after the initiatives taken by the now Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury.
The departments are Bangla, History, Islamic History and Culture, Arabic department, Institute of Marine Science and Fisheries, Physics, Geology, Micro Biology and Genetics Engineering and Technology among others.
The session jam of these departments has declined to 3 moth to a year. Side by side, a total of 11 departments are free from the curse of session jam. These departments are Philosophy, Phali and Sangskrita, Farsi Language and Literature, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Environmental Science, Institute of Education and Research, Communication and Journalism, International Relations Psychology department, Sociology, Chemistry, Human Resource and Management. University sources said, Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury on August, last year formed a monitoring committee with pro-vice chancellor Prof Dr Shirin Akhtar as head and deans of several faculty as members.
The committee held several meetings and formulated recommendation to decline the session jam. According to the committee report, it was found that the session was created and was continued as the publication of result takes a huge time and the complexity of the result evaluation as well.
Having recommend from the committee the vice-chancellor argued the chairmen of session-jam-gripped departments and deans of the faculty to hold examination according to the academic calendar.
However, 18 more departments are bound to the grip of session jam. The students of commerce discipline are mostly the session jam sufferer as they have to face a year to two year-long session jam until completing the post-graduation. Visiting the departments and talking with the students, the students of Computer Science and Engineering, Management, Marketing, Finance, Statistics, Economics, English are the worst sufferer of session jam.
On January 29, a letter has been sent to the chairman of the departments which are yet to decline the session jam to reply why the session jam hasn’t been declined and what measures have taken to reduce the session jam.
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