The Vice-Chancellor of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology on Tuesday approved the decision to resume classes from Saturday.
"The Deans' Committee members came to me with the new academic calendar to resume classes from Saturday. I'll give my permission," Professor S M Nazrul Islam told bdnews24.com .
The Committee devised a new academic calendar in Monday's meeting to end the deadlock at Bangladesh's premiere engineering university. At a media briefing following the meeting, the teachers said they had decided to return to classes.
The teachers had been demonstrating since April demanding ouster of the VC and the Pro-VC on corruption charges. Later students of the university joined them.
The demonstrating teachers and students abstained from classes and tests, pushing the university into turmoil.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid met the teachers in an apparent bid to resolve the crisis roiling the institution. After the meeting, the teachers announced to return to classes following Nahid's assurance to remove Pro-VC Prof Habibur Rahman and withdraw the cases.
The agitation at BUET gained pace as authorities filed two cases with the Shahbagh police on Sep 2 accusing around a hundred teachers and students of attacks on the offices of the VC and Pro-VC, vandalism, ransacking records and looting Tk 0.3 million.
The BUET authorities had filed applications to withdraw the cases on Sep 5 following the VC's order.
The government on Sunday removed Professor Habibur Rahman from the office of Pro-Vice Chancellor.
The move met one of the assurances the Education Minister had made to them to pull the top engineering university out of the turmoil.
In the wake of the joint movement, the authorities had advanced the Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr vacation by a month to close it on July 10 until Aug 24. The decision, however, failed to deter the protesters from going ahead with the movement.
The university resumed on Aug 25 but classes and examinations did not take place as the teachers and students pressed on with their protest.
"The Deans' Committee members came to me with the new academic calendar to resume classes from Saturday. I'll give my permission," Professor S M Nazrul Islam told bdnews24.com .
The Committee devised a new academic calendar in Monday's meeting to end the deadlock at Bangladesh's premiere engineering university. At a media briefing following the meeting, the teachers said they had decided to return to classes.
The teachers had been demonstrating since April demanding ouster of the VC and the Pro-VC on corruption charges. Later students of the university joined them.
The demonstrating teachers and students abstained from classes and tests, pushing the university into turmoil.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid met the teachers in an apparent bid to resolve the crisis roiling the institution. After the meeting, the teachers announced to return to classes following Nahid's assurance to remove Pro-VC Prof Habibur Rahman and withdraw the cases.
The agitation at BUET gained pace as authorities filed two cases with the Shahbagh police on Sep 2 accusing around a hundred teachers and students of attacks on the offices of the VC and Pro-VC, vandalism, ransacking records and looting Tk 0.3 million.
The BUET authorities had filed applications to withdraw the cases on Sep 5 following the VC's order.
The government on Sunday removed Professor Habibur Rahman from the office of Pro-Vice Chancellor.
The move met one of the assurances the Education Minister had made to them to pull the top engineering university out of the turmoil.
In the wake of the joint movement, the authorities had advanced the Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr vacation by a month to close it on July 10 until Aug 24. The decision, however, failed to deter the protesters from going ahead with the movement.
The university resumed on Aug 25 but classes and examinations did not take place as the teachers and students pressed on with their protest.
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