Madrasa students to get university certificate

Abdullahil Warish,

bdnews24.com IU Correspondent

Kushtia, April 28 (bdnews24.com) - The Fazil and Kamil examinees under Madrasa education board will get academic certificate from the Islamic University from 2006-07 academic year.

The Fazil and Kamil madrasas, however, would have to appeal for affiliation to the madrasa inspectors in specific forms of the university by October 15.

A syndicate meeting of the Islamic University Friday with vice chancellor Prof Foyez Mohammad Sirajul Haque approved an ordinance with necessary changes.

The Fazil and Kamil examinees affiliated with the university would get graduation and post graduation degrees from current academic year.

Deputy registrar SM Abdul Latif said the syndicate meeting finalised the ordinance on course plan and examinations.

Educationists who oppose the initiative to give graduate and post graduate degrees to madrasa students and to prevent unitary education system expressed cautious reaction to bdnews24.com.

They stressed reform to the syllabus of the madrasa education.

Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique of Dhaka University's Department of Mass Communication and Journalism said, "From which medium a student comes is not the main question, what is important is quality control of higher education. If that could not the ensured question would loom over the certificates given to the madrasa students."

Educationist and noted writer Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal said, "An autonomous university has the authority to give certificate and they can exercise it. But the question is under the existing curriculum how much justified it will be."

Former president of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Teachers' Association Sushanta Kumar Das said, "There remains nothing to gain from if madrasa students were attached to the university without changing the overall education system of Bangladesh. It would push the education system to complete disarray."

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