The education ministry on Thursday directed the National University authorities to transfer the students enrolled for its honours programmes on the main campus to other colleges and universities.
The students can be transferred as per their choices and availability, said a letter issued by the Secondary and Higher Education Division under the education ministry.
Earlier on May 23, the ministry gave a directive to the university authorities for closing all enrolment activities of honours programmes on its main campus.
At that time, confusion arose about 160 students who had already enrolled for the honours programmes on the NU main campus in 2023.
The Thursday letter, signed by joint secretary Md Parvez Hasan, read that all enrolment activities of honours programmes on the NU main campus had been closed.
With an aim to not obstructing the academic activities of the already enrolled students in 2023, a directive has been given to take necessary actions to enrol the students at NU鈥檚 adjacent any university or college as per the students鈥� choices and availability, it added.聽
The university registrar, Molla Mahfuz Al-Hossain, told 抖阴精品 on Thursday that they would take action as per the government directive.
The loggerheads between the NU and the education ministry started in 2023.
In July 2023, the university started its admission process to enrol the students for graduate programmes in LLB, BBA, tourism and hospitality management, and nutrition and food science departments.
Later in September, the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh directed the NU to suspend all activities on campus, including enrolment of the students on undergraduate programmes, stating that the process was a clear violation of the National University Act 1992.
An explanation had also been sought asking why the initiative was taken to enrol students for the on-campus graduation programme.
At the same time, the NU authorities replied to the commission that the decision on enrolling students for the undergraduate, honours programme on its main campus in Gazipur was legal and appropriate.
At that time, the NU also said that the order in 2023 came after the enrolment process had been completed.
On February 11, the UGC again this year directed the NU to suspend all enrolment activities on undergraduate programmes on its main campus for this year.
NU vice-chancellor professor Md Mashiur Rahman told 抖阴精品 on May 26 that they had already stopped all activities to enrol students this year.
He also said that they had started enrolling students on its main campus in 2023 following the academic master plan.
The NU was monitoring, evaluating results, making curriculum for about 800 colleges across the country and they wanted to make model honours programme on the NU campus to implement this at other colleges under it, he added.
Currently, 2,257 colleges, both government and non-government, and Bangabandhu Muktijuddha Bangladesh Research Institute are affiliated with the university while the number of students studying in these educational institutions is about 35 lakh.
