Health Minister A F M Ruhal Haque will sit with aspiring medical students on Sunday 9:30am at his office to discuss the medical admission test issue.
Responding to a demand of the agitating students, the minister told bdnews24.com that he would discuss the matter with students at his office in the Secretariat.
Aspiring medical students began protesting the government decision to scrap medical and dental school admission test.
They have been demanding that the minister agree to sit with them and discuss the matter while the minister has been blaming the examinees' movement on coaching centres that risk losing substantial business.
Meeting with reporters at Dhaka Reporters' Unity, the health minister on Saturday said he was ready to talk, but had little to do as the issue went to the court. He urged them to withdraw the writ petitions and discuss the row with him.
Following his request, the protesting students said they would sit within 24 hours 'if time is given'.
The health minister told bdnews24.com in the evening that he would sit with them to discuss the issue. "I'll brief journalists after the meeting," he said.
Experts had earlier told bdnews24.com that such a rushed decision should be revised.
Opposition BNP also sided with the protesting students as they believed that only GPAs could not be the deciding factor for getting into university.
Altogether there are 8,493 seats in all medical and dental schools in Bangladesh.
The number is 2,811 in the 22 government medical colleges and 4,245 in the 53 private ones.
The nine public dental colleges and medical colleges' dental units have 567 seats while 14 private dental institutes have 870 seats.
Responding to a demand of the agitating students, the minister told bdnews24.com that he would discuss the matter with students at his office in the Secretariat.
Aspiring medical students began protesting the government decision to scrap medical and dental school admission test.
They have been demanding that the minister agree to sit with them and discuss the matter while the minister has been blaming the examinees' movement on coaching centres that risk losing substantial business.
Meeting with reporters at Dhaka Reporters' Unity, the health minister on Saturday said he was ready to talk, but had little to do as the issue went to the court. He urged them to withdraw the writ petitions and discuss the row with him.
Following his request, the protesting students said they would sit within 24 hours 'if time is given'.
The health minister told bdnews24.com in the evening that he would sit with them to discuss the issue. "I'll brief journalists after the meeting," he said.
Experts had earlier told bdnews24.com that such a rushed decision should be revised.
Opposition BNP also sided with the protesting students as they believed that only GPAs could not be the deciding factor for getting into university.
Altogether there are 8,493 seats in all medical and dental schools in Bangladesh.
The number is 2,811 in the 22 government medical colleges and 4,245 in the 53 private ones.
The nine public dental colleges and medical colleges' dental units have 567 seats while 14 private dental institutes have 870 seats.
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