Executive positions of the NU
M Sadeq, Chairman, Dept. of management, Tejgaon College, Dhaka
The intermediate courses (now the HSC) offered by the colleges were under the jurisdiction of public universities up to the sixties of the last century. Towards 1960/1961, as far as we could gather, the intermediate courses were separated from the jurisdiction of the public universities and left under the jurisdiction of the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education. And for separating the intermediate courses from the operational jurisdiction of the public universities , no university teacher was needed to be posted as Chairman, Secretary and Controller of the Education Boards. Any college that intends to offer intermediate courses in Arts, Science and Business Studies requires to obtain affiliation from the respective Education Board. The separation of the intermediate courses from the jurisdiction of the Public Universities was done mainly to relieve their load and give them the wider scope of giving more attention to higher studies and research works befitting the institutions called the public universities. In the same way the National University was established in 1992 for lightening the pressure of the Degree(pass), Honours and Masters courses offered by the colleges affiliated with the public universities-Dhaka, Rajshahi and Chittagong. The Education Boards that control the secondary and Higher Secondary courses and examinations are not found to be headed by any teacher chosen from any public university. The executive heads of all the Education Boards are chosen from college teachers. After separating the Degree(pass),Honours and Masters courses (offered by the colleges) from the jurisdiction of the public universities, the teachers of PUs have no causal attachment with the affairs of the colleges affiliated under National University. Being in the advantageous position in all respects, they are not expected to realise the problems and limitations of the government and non-govt. colleges. They are not supposed to do justice (as paper-setters, script examiners etc) to the students of affiliated degree colleges who pursue their studies under immeasurable shortcomings and drawbacks, for which neither the colleges nor the students can be held liable exclusively. In a Public University a department with hardly one thousand students has not less than 25(twenty-five) regular teachers; but a degree college with 10 (ten) thousand students in a subject has to remain satisfied with only 5(five) regular teachers due to the limitations imposed by the government regarding the recruitment and posting of teachers on monetary excuse. The VC, Pro-VCs, Treasurer , Registrar and Deans of the National University are basically chosen from the public universities on political considerations. The top executives of the NU being from public universities, the assignment of the jobs having financial advantages are mostly delegated to the PU teachers who have hot lines with the men at the helm of affairs.The chairs of VCs, Pro-VCs, Treasurers, Registrars and Deans of the Universities are dignified ones and there are power and privileges attached to these chairs. These positions have now become mere rewards for political affiliations and not for administrative sagacity, professional integrity and academic excellence. Public university teachers who have active participation in and affiliation with any political party desire/deserve some reward from the party when it is in power; but this reward should not be awarded by sheer misplacement of an individual which may cause damage to the well-being and reputation of an organisation called an alma-mater. The unusual delay in the publication of results of public examinations held under NU has been due to the attitude of some of the public university teachers. Whereas the Education Boards are able to publish their results of a huge number of students in 90 days, the NU cannot publish results of some hundreds of examinees in even a year. The main reason attributable to such unusual delay in publication of results and unsatisfactory management is the holding of top positions by the public university teachers. It is therefore most earnestly hoped that the authorities concerned would kindly consider the issue judiciously and review the placement of public university teachers as VCs, Pro-VCs, Treasurers, Registrars and Deans of NU and choose suitable persons from government and non-government colleges for the above positions in the greater public interest.
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