DU fires teacher, expels over 100 students

The Dhaka University has fired a teacher for falsifying research and expelled 102 students from different departments and affiliate colleges for cheating in examinations.

The syndicate took the decisions at a meeting on Sunday night, Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique said.

He told bdnews24.com political science teacher Nur Uddin Alo, whose PhD was cancelled earlier for falsifying data in his research, was terminated for the same reason.

Also, at the meeting the syndicate decided to suspend 102 students for various terms for cheating in exams.

Nur Uddin Alo obtained his PhD in 2010 with the dissertation, 'The Practices of Marxism and Their Impacts on Modern World: The Case of Objectivisation'.

His thesis supervisor was Prof Shaokat Ara Hossain of the same department.

Prof Abdul Mannan of Jahangirnagar University’s Department of Government and Politics and Prof Maksudur Rahman of Rajshahi University’s epartment of Political Science, were on the evaluation committee.

In 2012, some of Alo's colleagues from the department applied to the vice-chancellor for reevaluation of the thesis. The university formed a probe committee, which after an investigation recommended that Alo be stripped of his PhD.

The committee said Alo had claimed to have interviewed 1.3 million people for his research but could not present any evidence of that, and the methodology he had claimed to use for the research was practically impossible.

Following this, the syndicate withdrew his PhD in September last year.

University Proctor Amzad Ali said actions against 102 students ranged from suspension for three months to permanent expulsion.