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According to the University Grants Commission (UGC), a common admission test will be organized in all the public universities of the country from the academic year 2023-24. On the other hand, 22 general and science and technology universities of the country, including Jagannath and Islami universities, will participate in the batch admission test in the academic year 2022-23.

This decision was taken in a meeting held at the UGC today on Monday regarding the conduct of the admission examination for the academic year 2022-2023 in cluster system.

In the meeting, the UGC directed the cluster universities to take the admission test and start the classes after completing the admission process. Apart from this, the organizers have also been advised to make the admission test process easy and student-friendly and to make this batch of admissions unique.

UGC Chairman Professor Dr. Kazi Shahidullah chaired the meeting held by the member of the commission Professor Dr. Dil Afroza Begum, Professor Dr. Muhammad Alamgir, Professor Dr. Biswajit Chand and Professor Dr. Md. Abu Taher, Vice-Chancellor of 17 public universities, UGC Secretary Dr. Ferdous Zaman and Director of Public University Management Division Mohammad Jaminur Rahman along with related officials participated.

The meeting discussed the existing crisis of batch admissions and possible solutions. How to overcome last year’s complications in admissions and how to make admissions easier and student friendly are also discussed.

UGC Chairman Professor Dr. Kazi Shahidullah said, the people of the country have given us warm greetings for organizing the admission test in the batch system. It’s a good test method, they said. Some problems have arisen in taking the test in the new system. So there is no chance of retreat or escape from here.

He urged the Vice-Chancellor and the admission concerned to be sincere so that the batch admission test would be a good and universally accepted procedure. Apart from this, the UGC chairman also advised the concerned authorities to be sensitive in implementing the government’s intention regarding the batch admission test.

Professor Muhammad Alamgir, member of the UGC and convenor of the cluster admission test organizing committee, said that 80 percent of the country’s public universities are participating in the cluster admission test. The government has decided that a unique system of admission tests will be organized in all universities from next year.

He urged the admissions concerned of the cluster universities to take the admission test and start the classes in a short time. Apart from this, he also called upon the countrymen to make the admission process easy and give an excellent admission test.