It is necessary to make a policy specifying which university quota system is useful, which one is opportunist, which one should be kept, which one must be removed and which one need alteration.
The urge of policy-making is originated from the complicacy in ward-quota for admission procedure of Jahangirnagar University and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST).
Ward quota is one of the quotas for university admission system. In Jahangairnagar University about 150 students are getting admission through availing this quota system. The facility of ward quota goes to the children of teacher, officer and employees who need to secure only the pass marks that mean 21 out of 60 to be eligible for admission!
But the administration has ordered to give 3 extra marks as grace to those who failed to get 21 and loosen up the conditions of the departments concerned. The members of departmental admission committee, who declined to accept these irregularities, are being pressurised by others. On the other hand, SUST is introducing the ward quota system for the first time under the pressure of the employees.
It is alarming, because the students, who are not qualified enough, are getting admission through this system, which is troubling the students as well.
How is it possible for the students to pass the difficult examinations of graduation and post-graduation levels, who do not even have the primary preparation for higher studies? How the teachers will make them to pass in the examinations? Or else will they also offer grace marks in those levels? There are examples of becoming teachers at a point of this process too!
In Jahangirnagar University, there is a record of becoming an administrative officer after admitting in the university through ward quota system. Later the officer involved in corruption, terrorism and torturing of students.
How the administration can arrange this kind of systems to tear down the education system?
It is very relevant to remove the burden of ward quota over the universities.
We are expecting authorities' common sense and Presidents' involvement, as the chancellor of the universities, where it is required.