Catharsis!
Being a student of a private university, I am used to facing different kinds of strange questions and each time they left me with utter despair…the other day I met one of my friends, who directly asked me, “Hey, I heard that in your university students attend classes standing!! Is that true?” This was so much choking for me that I started babbling and only after gathering enough strength to talk again I was capable of saying only, “ No, you heard it wrong”. Once one of my relatives asked me, “ Do you appear in examinations, or it is not needed?” I just managed to answer, “ No we are not that much lucky yet”. These are some very general inquiries about private universities as well as their students.
Okay, I have no problem to admit that we are not 'A' grade students as we didn't get 'chance' in Dhaka University. How many of the students get 'chance' in Dhaka University or any other public universities? And those who don't get 'chance', then they even fail to sustain the 'chance' to be treated as only 'students'…now we are only left with the quotation, “Frailty, thy name is chance” and out of this 'frailty' today Bangladesh is the proud nation of having 56 private universities…
The problems that we are facing today have arisen out of the increasing number of universities. There are many universities which don't have even rooms to hold classes, don't have permission for professional courses, don't have any regulation or transparent agenda and so on. When people see such universities, then definitely they will raise question about the real picture. There are some good universities which are really providing quality education, but their achievements are not recognised because of the 'tail-end' universities.
Today I have just tried to express what it feels like when people question your credentials as a student.
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