A section of National University students of the three-year degree courses locked the office of the vice-chancellor professor ASM Amanullah for hours on Sunday demanding an auto pass.

Professor ASM Amanullah told New Age on Sunday night that the government had no intention to allow auto passes for the graduation-level students.

The students were of 2019-2020 sessions and alleged that their three-year degree pass course was scheduled to be completed by three years.

They also said that many students of National University were injured in the recent mass uprising and many were affected by the recent floods.

Due to the session jam, they demanded an auto pass instead of the final examinations for the last year.

They urged the authorities to finalise their third year’s results based on their results in first and second years.

With the demand, in the afternoon a section of students took position in front of the university’s main gate and later they locked the office of the vice-chancellor.

The vice-chancellor professor ASM Amanullah said that around 20 to 30 students locked his office while he and other officials were inside for three to four hours.

‘In the history of Bangladesh at graduation level never any auto pass had been granted,’ he said, ‘the education ministry or the government has no plan to allow auto passes for the university students. ‘

He mentioned that the session jam was created due to Covid-19 pandemic, negligence of the previous government and recent mass uprising.

‘We will start the final examinations for the third year of this session from November 20 and complete the exams by December and publish the results in January 2025,’ he continued.

‘The graduation level students must participate in exams and pass using their merits which was the main spirit of anti-quota movement,’ he added.

In the face of student protest, in August this year the government cancelled the postponed Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations.

The process of preparing the results of the half-done examinations would be based on subject mapping, said the education ministry officials.