RU convocation today
Alumni complain about mismanagement
The eighth convocation of Rajshahi University (RU) will be held today after 14 years of the last one to confer degrees to its graduates.
RU authorities have arranged colourful programmes to give certificates to 7,021 graduates who completed Masters, MPhil, PhD and MBBS degrees between 1991 and 2005.
RU sources said the main function will be held at the university stadium.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will chair the programme, while Dhaka University Bangla Department Professor Emeritus Anisuzzaman will attend as speaker.
Meanwhile, some of registered alumni in a press conference on the campus yesterday expressed their dissatisfaction over the convocation gowns.
They also criticised the RU authorities for their mismanagement as some preparations of the function were not completed till yesterday.
They said most of the gowns have Dhaka University's seal on those, and all were dirty.
MM Nuruzzaman, a former student of Law Department of the university, said, "It is the matter of shame that we are going to take certificates by wearing the gowns of Dhaka University".
Md Golam Azom, a registered graduate, and also an additional chief judicial magistrate of Satkhira, criticised the RU authorities for not inviting any world famous person as convocation speaker.
"We are astonished hearing the news that the education minister will preside over the convocation," he said.
RU Registrar MA Bari said they collected the gowns from DU as it was a tradition to borrow those from one university to another.
"We have already taken all preparations to hold the convocation successfully," he added.
Meanwhile, pro-BNP-Jamaat teachers would boycott the convocation saying that the university authorities politicised the convocation by nominating the education minister to preside over the function instead of the chancellor or vice chancellor.
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