The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) will reopen on September 10 while the residential halls of the university will be opened tomorrow (Saturday).

On the other hand, the Dhaka University (DU) authorities could not take any decision about reopening the university which was closed down along with other public universities in six divisional cities on August 22 following a violent clash between students and security forces on the DU campus.

Prof SMA Faiz said yesterday that they would take a decision about reopening the university after discussing the mater with the Syndicate and Deans commitee on September 8.

The Chitagong University authorities have already taken a decision to reopen the university on October 24, while the residential halls will be opened a day before the reopening.

Besides, the classes at the government and non-government colleges in six divisional cities will resume tomorrow.

The decision was taken following an announcement by the government

The BUET authorities took the decision at an emergency syndicate meeting yesterday in the light of the decision taken at a meeting of the vice-chancellors of public universities held at the Ministry of Education with Education Adviser in the chair earlier this week.

Vice-Chancellor of BUET Prof AKM Shafiullah told The New Nation that they had taken the decision about reopening the university after receiving directive from the government

The examinations of the university might be delayed for unscheduled closure but the admission test would be held as usual. However, the commitee for supervising the admission tests is yet to be constituted, he added.

He also said the unscheduled closure of the university for about two weeks would not affect the admission test in any way.

An official announcement yesterday said that the government had decided to withdraw an order issued on August 22 for closure of all government and non-government colleges in divisional cities.

The government ordered the reopening all government and non-government colleges after 15 days of their mandatory closure.

Besides, the government asked the principals of the colleges to resume their all-out activities as the situation has improved.

Chitagong University (CU) syndicate led by CU VC Prof Badiul Alam yesterday decided to reopen the university on October 24 after Eid-ul-Fitr and Durga Puja vacation.

Meanwhile, the National University (NU) authorities decided to resume the classes at its affiliated government and non-government colleges from Saturday according to the latest official order.

Amid spreading violence from campus to campus over the issue, the

caretaker government had issued a directive closing down all public

universities and the aforesaid colleges for indefinite period.