Eminent teachers and politicians came up with remarks that loose teacher-student relationship and degradation of values are responsible for the present unwarranted situation in the educational institutions including Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), reports BSS. Talking to the news agency, they held the opinion that the matter should thoroughly be looked into whether there was involvement of any evil force behind the situation.
Their remarks came against the backdrop of recent incidents that happened in different public universities including SUST and Mymensingh Agriculture University. About the eruption of present unexpected situation in Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Dhaka University vice-chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique identified loose teacher-student relationship and degradation of values as the reasons behind that. He said, “Teachers should participate in teacher’s movement, why students would go there. Whether there was any evil force behind the incident should thoroughly be looked into.” Awami League presidium member Nuh-ul-Alam Lenin held the opinion that uncontrolled students politics in educational institutions is the reason for recent unrest on the campuses.
“Use of students’ politics by the teachers can never be expected as this bad practice might be a boomerang for the teachers. Students’ politics should have to be taken (recourse) to its ideologies and then recurrence of the incidents like this would stop,” he added. Syed Abu Jafar Ahmed, general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), was of the opinion that internal conflict between teachers belonging to different parties and use of influential student bodies by some teachers for their narrow individual interests were responsible for the unrest in educational institutions. m, but they should not get involved in conflicts centering individual interests.