Most Sylhet colleges to face dearth of students
Although 82 percent students passed this year's SSC examinations under Sylhet Education Board, most of the colleges will face student shortage as the number of successful candidates is around 28,000 less than the institutions' total accommodation capacity in the HSC first year. The 15 government and 148 non-government and private colleges in four districts under the division have a total of 68,000 seats for the first year intermediate classes while 39,388 SSC candidates passed under the board this year, said Professor Maniruddin Ahmed, controller of examinations of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Sylhet. Most of the institutions are in the rural areas. "The process for admission of the students into the class XI begun on June 1 and June 9 is the last date for submission of applications," the official told this correspondent yesterday afternoon. However, the leading colleges will see rush of students and there will be very little chance for admission of candidates without A-plus recipients. Even the A-plus recipients, especially in science group, will have to face competition for getting admitted into the well-known institutions, especially in the divisional city, as 2188 students got the highest GPA in Sylhet Board this year. The four leading colleges in the city have a total of 3300 seats, including 1550 for science students. Students from other districts will also be there for admission. Sylhet Government College has 900 seats in science, arts and business studies groups, Madan Mohan College has 1250 seats in the three groups, Sylhet Government Women's College has 850 seats in science and arts groups, and MC College, having arrangement for science students only, has 300 seats. Jalalabad Cantonment College has 150 seats. However, some of the private institutions are hopeful of managing a good number of students. Already a few of them have given reception to the SSC passed students in a bid to persuade them for admission. One 'commercially-run' college in the capital also held reception for the students in Sylhet city a few days ago. As per the education ministry's admission guidelines this year, 86 per cent seats in each college will remain open for all candidates, seven percent will be reserved for mofussil students, five per cent for candidates from muktijoddha (freedom fighter) families and two per cent for those from families of the staff working at different institutions under education ministry.
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