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Vice-Chancellors of the country's public and private universities Saturday endorsed in principle a report on uniform grading system prepared by the University Grants Commission (UGC), reports BDNEWS.
The VCs at a meeting with UGC Chairman Prof M Asaduzzaman, however, said they need clearance from the academic councils of their respective universities to implement the grading system.
The UGC report received no-objection from the vice chancellors during the meeting, Asaduzzaman told the news agency.
A total of 75 VCs of different public and private universities across the country attended the meeting held at the LGED building at 11am.
Sources said although the VCs agreed in principle on the uniform grading system, they sought time to table the issue before the academic councils of their respective universities before they make a final decision.
They also differed with some of the points of the report and suggested some changes to it.
Asaduzzaman said the UGC meeting with the VCs was aimed at working out ways to implement the uniform grading system from the academic session of 2006-2007.
The UGC, which prefers the grading system to ensure uniformity in the university degrees, finalised the system four months ago. A committee was formed to evaluate the system on the basis of meetings with the VCs.
The commission had proposed a nine-step letter grade system for evaluation in the public and private universities to ensure uniformity in results.
According to the UGC recommendation, students will get numerical marks corresponding to letter grades in nine steps beginning from D to A and the grade points will be between 1.00 and 4.00.
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