Author: Dr. Syed Ashraful Ferdous
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For the purpose of higher education the crisis and at the same time the vacancies of seats are a vital matter. It is amazing that we start for the higher level education with a large number of vacant seats while the number of seats is limited. Thus the students, who failed in the competition, become frustrated. At the same time it enlarges the passage of evasion for the shirking teachers to teach the class with vacant seats.
There are many reasons for such vacancies:
1. Some students migrate to better institutes. Thus many seats of the institutes, which are being left, usually remain vacant. Those vacancies are normally filled in by relatives or well-known of the teachers and staffs of respective institutes without any notice or advertisement. Besides, less qualified or unqualified applicants are provided chance to get admitted in lue of money.
2. Some applicants participate in the admission test to asses their own merits, even after getting chance into the better institutes. So their names are appeared in the merit lists but they do not get admitted. Instead of this, comparatively distant (from the point of view of merit) applicants or applicants from the waiting lists get admitted. These students suffer from inferiority, as though they haven’t found their names in the proper lists in the admission test result sheets. Because the previously mentioned students went away and remain their higher ranking institutes (first category) leaving behind them (the other group) in the admission test of the lower ranking institutes.
3. In many times, those vacant seats remain vacant for ever due to the negligence of the authority to hung notices or provide advertisements in proper time.
4. As there is a scope to participate in the admission test twice after passing the higher secondary level many students take part in the admission test second time with the ambition to get chance in better subjects, faculties , or institutes, even after getting chance at the first contest. When they succeed in the second time and get admitted there, then the seats in the previous subjects, faculties, or institutes, in which they got opportunity at the first contest remain vacant for the further three or four years, after being occupied by those students for one year ( first year). Because, no students can be directly admitted to these seats of second year (academic year of a course) as they have not studied any lesson of first year.
Thus, due to providing opportunity to sit for the admission tests in the second time, many students, who have got the chance for admission at the first time and got admitted into an institutes, do not take their lessons properly during the first year of their courses and try to get admitted into another one. Those who fail drop down and re-admitted into first year with new comers. Because of the disturbances of the old students it becomes tough for the newer students to survive in the class-room.
Naturally teachers do not give sight to the seats vacated in that ways. Because, the less the number of the students the more the suitable condition prevails for them, almost no student will ask them about their own quarries. Then less exam sheets have to be examined. Accountability to the authority will be lessened. Probability of claims and demands from the students will be reduced.
Some universities allocated the fees earned from the admission forms for the funds of their teachers and other staffs. So they give the opportunity to sit for the admission test twice for the sake of their admission-business (!). Even they provide the scope to participate the admission exam for the students even after four to five years later than he passes the higher secondary exam. It has been found in a special survey that more than one-fourth of the total seats remain vacant in different universities in Bnagladesh.
Considering the overall circumstances, the Government and the University Grant Commission (U.G.C.) should take such steps that no meritorious students is deprived from the admission into a higher education institute, and at the same time no one can misuse the scopes prevailed now and deprive another.
Tags: Higher Education, Seat Crisis, U.G.C., University
