President for proper academic environment, quality education

President M Abdul Hamid on Sunday asked the University Grants Commission to play its due role to ensure proper academic environment and quality education in the universities of the country.

‘Take necessary steps to make education more time-befitting at all public and private universities,’ the president said while a UGC delegation led by its chairman Kazi Shahidullah submitted the Annual Report 2018 to him at Bangabhaban in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon.

Later, president’s press secretary M Joynal Abedin briefed the journalists.

President Hamid, during the meeting, also stressed the need for setting time-befitting and world-standard academic curriculum to acquaint the graduates with the global competition.

The head of the state urged the UGC authority to consider adoption of an identical teachers’ appointment policy as over 150 public and private universities were running their academic activities.

President Hamid was apprised by the UGC chairman of different activities of the university, including various infrastructural development, curriculums and various aspects of the report.

The UGC chairman informed the president about holding admission tests at seven agricultural universities as per the cluster system, which helped admission seekers and their guardians to reduce their sufferings.

He told the president that they had taken a strategic plan to introduce a uniform appointment policy for pro-vice-chancellors and treasurers of the universities.

The UGC would set up a quality and time-befitting research centre, Shahidullah added, seeking the president’s all-out cooperation in this connection.

Abdul Hamid gave a patient hearing to the delegation and assured them of his overall cooperation.

Secretaries concerned to the president were present.

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