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Several hundred graduates of North South University are facing trouble due to a lack of original certificates of their graduation as the university is yet to hold its convocation.
The students cannot complete the admission process for higher study abroad despite getting the opportunity of higher education in various reputed universities of the developed world.
Many students have completed the admission through online but they are not getting visas due to lack of original certificates, they said
The aggrieved graduates of NSU wrote a letter to the chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) last month seeking cooperation in this regard.
According to the letter, the students have completed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in various subjects from NSU in 2020 and 2021.
They process admissions to Masters and PhD programmes with 100 per cent scholarships in universities located in South Korea, Germany and Denmark.
However, the concerned embassy rejected the students’ visa application as they could not produce the original certificate.
Even, some students of NSU studying in Germany and Denmark have been told to submit original certificates from the university or the authorities will be forced to cancel the admissions.
The students said they have repeatedly informed the university authorities but the authorities have been expressing inability to issue the original certificate until holing convocation.
The students urged UGC to allow the university to issue the original certificate as soon as possible after completing the convocation.
Otherwise, allow the university to issue the original certificate urgently by anyway, said the letter
On the condition of anonymity, a student said “We are uncertain about going to a foreign university despite getting 100 per cent scholarship. What could be more disappointing than that?
He said, “We do not see any progress despite moving to the doors of university and UGC. Now we don’t see any way except to go for street movement.”
NSU sources said the university applied to the Ministry of Education in August 2021 seeking permission to organise the 24th convocation.
Then in September of that year, the ministry wrote to the UGC seeking its opinion on the matter. The UGC sent its opinion to the ministry in the following month. But the UGC is yet to get the permission.
When asked, NSU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Atiqul Islam said, “We have been conducting regular convocations for graduates all the time. Even we organised convocation virtually during the conovid-19 pandemic.”
“However, there is an obligation to take the permission of the education ministry to organise the convocation. So we are waiting for the permission of the ministry till now.”
A letter has also been sent to the UGC asking whether there is any scope to issue the original certificate before the convocation, he added.
