The government in a massive decision taken on Tuesday has cancelled all the remaining examinations of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and it equivalent levels.
The Ministry of Education took the decision in response to demands from some students who stormed into the secretariat around 2pm Tuesday.
Prof. Tapan Kumar Sarker, head of the Inter-Education Board Coordinating Committee and chairman of the Dhaka Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, confirmed the matter to the media over the phone.
He also said that details on how the exam results will be published will be disclosed within the next 1 or 2 days.
Earlier on June 30, the HSC and equivalent exams began across the country. After eight days of exams, all exams scheduled for July 18 were postponed due to the situation created by the quota reform movement. After that, the government postponed the exams three more times.
Finally, after postponing all the exams, a new schedule was published starting from August 11. According to that, the written exams were supposed to end by September 8. However, due to the current situation caused by the mass-student movement and the resignation of the Sheikh Hasina-led government, the boards said that it is not possible to conduct the exams. Students storm secretariat demanding HSC results via subject mapping.Earlier hundreds of students stormed the Secretariat demanding the release of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) results through subject mapping and without taking tests of the remaining subjects.
The students forcefully broke through police barriers at the gate near Zero Point and made their way into the secretariat on Tuesday around 2pm.
They were seen staging a protest march between building 6 and 11.
The HSC exams were postponed in the midway following the mass uprising that overthrew the Awami League government.
It should be mentioned that the HSC exams and its examinees had to face trouble several time since the exams began on June 30.
Immediate after the exams began, floods occurred across the country inundating hundreds of educational institutions, including examination centres.
In face of the repeated floods, the authorities concerned had postponed examinations of all the flood hit areas.
Besides, the HSC examinations were postponed for the second times in face of the recent violence across the country following protests demanding reforms in the quota system in the government job. Later the movement turned into the movement demanding resignation of Sheikh Hasina as the Prime Minister.
At one state of the movement, she had to flee from the country after resignation.
