The way the current administration of Chittagong University has rushed to recruit more than 400 teachers, officers, and employees within just 15 months cannot, by any standard, be described as a normal recruitment process.

A section of the university’s teachers has alleged that these appointments involve nepotism and an attempt by a particular group to strengthen its own position.

Allegations of irregularities, politicisation, and nepotism in the recruitment of teachers, officers, and staff at Chittagong University are not new.

A report by Prothom Alo notes that during the tenure of the Awami League government—ousted in the student–public uprising—five vice-chancellors served at the university.