All want country’s public universities to maintain peaceful atmosphere on the campus. It is expected of teachers that they will help develop the latent faculties of the students for the progress of the country and make their thinking more effective as well.
Our students will also devote themselves to their studies alongside other extra-curricular activities on their respective campuses. The university teachers will foster positive bonds with students by creating a constructive classroom and campus climate, treating students as junior scholars.
But, an indefinite work abstention called by teachers of public universities across the country demanding their exclusion from the universal pension scheme, puts thousands of students in uncertainty whether they will be able to complete the honours and masters degree on time. The all-out strike has started from Monday.
The teachers say their movement is a movement to protect the honour and dignity of the society of teachers of the university. Their movement is what they said against the interference in the autonomy of the public universities.
This all-out strike will continue until the demands of exclusion of university teachers from the ‘discriminatory and degrading’ pension scheme, introduction of individual pay scale for teachers, inclusion of university teachers in the promised ‘super grade’ are met, say versity teachers.
This all-out strike will continue
until the demands of exclusion
of university teachers from the
‘discriminatory and degrading’
pension scheme,say versity teachers
Classes and examinations including regular, evening program, professional programs, online classes and offline classes; all the academic and administrative activities remain suspended. Chairman offices, hall provost offices, research centres, institutes, central library, dean offices, computer labs and seminars also remain shut. The teachers are also not attending any selection board meeting and question collaboration meeting, academic committee meetings.
The students and their guardians are worried about an ensuing session jam and, ultimately, their future. Teachers are protesting on their demands. They have that right.
But, uncertainty now clouds the students’ road to the future as they are not even sure when they can complete their four-year bachelor’s degree, one-year masters degree following the all-out strike called by teachers. The chancellor and the high command of the government should hold a meeting immediately with leaders of the Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers' Association, who have been enforcing a strike since Monday to settle the issue. Later, the chancellor and the high command should take decision considering the students future as early as possible.
Many people say that the government controls
university teachers. Through this movement, it is proved that they (public university teachers) can express their opinion freely.
Teachers are playing a very important role in every student’s life on every university campus, boosting their morale and guiding them to become the future leaders of the country. Alongside manifold problems like lack of residential and transport facilities, academic activities at public universities of the country are being hampered seriously due to crisis of teacher.
Apart from inadequacy of infrastructures and other logistics, teacher shortage has taken a serious turn at the public universities. We are gravely concerned over the latest crisis as this has already started compounding the situation for the students.
