Who is a terror? We can say those who frighten people to carry-on their activity are terrorists. I have experienced some terror and horror, those are artistic terror and horror. They do not threaten us in general way, they say that if we do it, they will do another thing. This another thing is the cause of another thing that will frighten us.
Many says that higher education is a product in advanced country. They make it product, because they are financially resolved. They have a lot of patronizer for higher education. I do not know the amount of scholarship money to study in other university, but in Dhaka University I am getting 250 taka per month which is equal to 3.7 USD per month. Those who are providing me a scholarship of 3.7 USD per month, how can they think of making the higher education as a product.
In our country most of the people are poor, the people pay our educational expenses at our university as it is a public university. If it is privatized and the authority say that those will study who have money, how the poor and meritorious student will pay a 2735 USD semister fee with a 3.7 USD per month scholarship?
I do not find any positive reason to privatize our university right at this moment. But those are trying to privatize it are the real terror and horror.
Our CSE department inform us that, they are going to launch commercial evening masters program whose semester fee is 186000 taka or 2735 USD. They wanted to know about our opinion. They have the authority to take any decision without destroying the current student’s future. Since it is a threat to our and our next 100 batches future, we opposed about the commercial course.
In the next day, they published a circular of admission of that commercial course. We started movement against it, because it is a movement for the right of education. If the meritorious are deprived of higher education, there will be no invention, no progress in business. The people who are poor but meritorious will not get the chance to prove his or her merit, only the rich guy will have higher education as it is a product.
The terror and horror lead us to the movement. We sat with the teacher, requested to stop that commercial course until our problems are solved, but they refused, We went to the Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Dr. Shahida Rafiq. She ordered to stop selling the admission form for that commercial course over phone. The students went to classes. But they cheated us, they were selling the admission forms for that commercial course. So we went to street again with slogan and banner. After five days of movements, the so called terror and horror (authority) suspend the commercial masters course in the Computer Science and Engineering Department and proposed to stop it forever in the syndicate. We know the terror and horror will rise again to destroy the merit of the nation because money matters.