UNIVERSITY of Dhaka students demanding elections to the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union and hall unions in three to six months is a legitimate demand. The demand came once again through a survey that the advisory committee formed by the university administration conducted in March 23鈥揂pril 6. About 75 per cent of the respondents say that the authorities...
Seventy-five per cent of students at the University of Dhaka believe that organising the Dhaka University聽 Central Students鈥� Union elections by June will ensure the most peaceful and widely accepted outcome, according to a recent survey.
1989. It had already been way more than five years since Hussein Muhammad Ershad assumed office in December 1983. A political gloom filled the air. Not only in the capital Dhaka, but everywhere. We could feel the fearfulness, the gloom and the repression, then still living in a western small town, eagerly hoping to step in the University of Dhaka as a student...
The University of Dhaka authorities have again decided to restrict vehicular movement at seven entry points on the university campus from today...
The fact-finding committee formed to investigate violent attacks on the July-August protesters at the University of Dhaka from July 15, 2024, to August 5, 2024, said on Thursday that they identified 122 DU students who were allegedly involved in the violent attacks in the period.
The mathematics department of the University of Dhaka held an orientation programme for the first year undergraduate students at the Mathematics Building of the university on Wednesday...
IF THERE were ever a time to pitch a Netflix drama based on the chaos of Bangladesh鈥檚 education system, the current saga of the University of Dhaka and its seven affiliated colleges would be it. We can call it campus wars or the bureaucratic labyrinth. The tale has everything: students in revolt, high-stakes drama, a pro-vice chancellor with a penchant...
he issue have been drawn long enough, warranting early government efforts for a meaningful resolution. The seven colleges 鈥� Begum Badrunnessa Government Girls鈥� College, Dhaka College, Eden Girls鈥� College, Government Bangla College...
This is unacceptable that medical centres at most universities are in bad shape as they are crippled by a shortage of human resources, infrastructure and other facilities. The sorry state of the centres has limited the access of students, teachers and officials to quality and timely treatment. The centres are also supposed to provide for diagnostic facilities, but...
A six-day exhibition titled Exhibition on Delft Ceramic ended at the Zainul Gallery of faculty of fine art, University of Dhaka on Thursday...
The University of Dhaka has moved up 28 positions in the United Kingdom-based education and research organisation Quacquarelli Symonds Asia University Rankings.
The Department of Persian Language and Literature of the University of Dhaka held an orientation and farewell programme of the new and outgoing students of the department at the Teacher-Student Centre auditorium of the university on Wednesday...
The University of Dhaka celebrated the World Philosophy Day on the campus in the capital on Thursday...
A presentation and discussion titled 鈥楪raffiti in the July Mass Uprising鈥� was held by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka on Wednesday...
The University of Dhaka at a syndicate meeting on Wednesday made a decision to lift the ban on academic ties with Pakistan...
THE Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, which is said to have brought out a procession last on the University of Dhaka campus in 2013 after a campus presence in 2008, has made the headlines again as the organisation鈥檚 university unit president sat at a meeting with the vice-chancellor, pro-vice-chancellor, treasurer...
SEAT crisis in residential halls in public universities has been a persistent problem, with 60 per cent of students having no access to residential facilities. The halls of residence had, moreover, been under the control of ruling party student organisation that used to run seat trade and allocate them in exchange for partisan loyalty. Leaders and activists of the...
The University of Dhaka has invited applications for the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program for the 2024-2025 academic year for the July-December session...
Today is the 14th anniversary of the death of poet, essayist, researcher and literary critic, Abdul Mannan Syed...
Students of the University of Dhaka on Monday staged a human chain at the Anti-Violence Raju Memorial Sculpture on the university, demanding the immediate issuance of the notifications for the appointment of pro vice-chancellors for education and admini-stration...
The newly appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka, Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan, on Wednesday hoped that the academic and other activities of the university would be fully operational within a week...
A newly-built classroom under the 鈥楯apanese Language Classroom Improvement Project鈥� of the Institute of Modern Languages of University of Dhaka was inaugurated at the institute on Tuesday...
Professor Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah has been appointed as the new drector of the Institute of Business Administration at the University of Dhaka, effective from Sunday...
PUBLIC universities in Bangladesh often attract media attention for the wrong reasons. This observation may be an over-generalisation, but it has some basis. The tea-and-samosa saga narrated by a former vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka amused many on social media...
SURVIVORS of sexual harassment on the University of Dhaka campus during Pahela Boishakh celebrations in 2016 still await justice as the case remains stuck in legal bureaucracy. On January 31, a Women and Children Repression (Prevention) Tribunal had to...