The Sylhet Agricultural University students continued their agitation on Tuesday, demanding adjustment in the existing credit system for evaluation.
Campus sources said no academic activities, including classes and scheduled examinations, were held on the day as the students locked the administrative and academic buildings.
The vice-chancellor and other officials and employees could not enter their offices as the students locked the two entrances of the administrative building at about 8:30am.
Students of the fisheries department said two scheduled examinations of the level 3 students were postponed as the authorities could not enter the administrative building to collect the question papers.
Being contacted, fisheries faculty dean Matiar Rahman Hawladar told New Age in the afternoon that new schedule of the postponed examinations would be announced later.
The campus sources said the students at first locked the entrances of the administrative building and then all faculty buildings on the campus.
The students also set fire to tyres in front of the university buildings and at all the roundabouts, brought out processions and held rallies on the campus in protest at the authorities' decision not to allow a student's promotion if he/she fails in more than 20 per cent examinations of the credit courses in a semester.
They students, however, unlocked the faculty buildings after 1:00pm, but kept the administrative building locked till 5:00pm.
The university proctor, Anwar Hossein, told New Age that they should not support the students' demand, because the quality of education system of the university would fall if the demand was met.
'The authorities will rather take a sterner position in this regard,' he added.
The first and second batches' students of SAU began the movement on Wednesday last, demanding the credit limit at 40 per cent.
Source : New Age
