Dhaka Central University, a newly established university comprising seven government colleges in the capital Dhaka, will hold 40 per cent of its classes online and the rest 60 per cent in person.
The university will be comprised of four schools to operate the institution鈥檚 learning and research activities, said acting Secondary and Higher Education Division secretary Md Mozibor Rahman at a press conference held at the secretariat in the capital Dhaka on Monday.
He said that the four schools would be school of sciences, school of arts and humanities, school of business studies and school of law and justice.
All students under the university will study non-major courses in the first four semesters and major courses in the next four semesters as per their discipline.
In the fifth semester, the students can change discipline on condition but not the campuses. All examinations will be held in person.
The admission process at the university this year would follow the previously used method and all work regarding the new university, including issuing the ordinance, would be completed by this year, said officials.
Classes of the school of sciences will be held at Dhaka College, Eden Mohila College and Begum Badrunnesa Government Women鈥檚 College and classes of the school of law and justice will be held at Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College and Kabi Nazrul Government College.
Classes of the school of arts and humanities will be held at Mirpur Government Bangla College and classes of the school of business studies will be held at Government Titumir College.
The university鈥檚 all activities will be operated by the academic council, senate and syndicate.
The university will have one proctor and one male and one female deputy proctor in each college.
The four schools will only provide honours level education the higher secondary level education will continue in five colleges and will introduce at Eden Mohila College and Government Titumir College.
As out of the seven colleges, Mirpur Government Bangla College has the highest amount of land unused, the university鈥檚 main campus or administrative building, central library, central medical centre and central teachers-students can be built there, an education ministry paper said.
University Grants Commission of Bangladesh member professor Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan said that they took the special initiative for the university under an 鈥榓bnormal鈥� circumstance as it did not have legal basis but had approval from the education ministry.聽
The number of seats and the disciplines in the university are yet to be finalised, he said, adding that if the existing college teachers would fulfil the requirements, they would be appointed as the university teachers.
Tanzimuddin said that this year the admission process at this university would be held as per the existing system.
鈥榃e want to complete all work regarding the new university, including issuing the ordinance for the university, by this year,鈥� he added.
UGC chairman professor SMA Faiz, member professor Saidur Rahman and Dhaka Central University interim administrator professor AKM Elias also spoke at the press conference.
Before 1992, the country鈥檚 all degree colleges were operated by Dhaka University, Rajshahi University, Chittagong University and Bangladesh Agricultural University.
In 1992, the government colleges under the public universities were brought under National University.
In February 2017, the government affiliated the seven colleges with Dhaka University. After the affiliation, crises were seen on a regular basis as students of the seven colleges alleged that the DU authorities failed to run the colleges properly.
Following a large-scale student movement, the Dhaka University authorities on January 27 decided to cancel their affiliation with these colleges and on March 16 a decision was made to name the new university as Dhaka Central University.
From Sunday, the admission procedure in the undergraduate programmes under the university in the 2025-24 academic years started and the students can apply till August 10 for the admission.
