Rajshahi: The Rajshahi University (RU) authorities on Saturday decided to allow only the freshly passed HSC students to appear for the admission tests for its honours programmes from the 2016-2017 academic session.

The decision came from a meeting of RU academic council, chaired by its Vice-Chancellor Muhammad Mizanuddin, reports UNB, a local news agency.

RU Registrar Muhammad Entazul Huque said the decision will come into effect from the next year’s admission test where only the students passing HSC in 2016 can take part.

The university authorities came up with the decision to prevent students from appearing for the admission tests illegally on behalf of others, said Amzad Hossain of Business Studies Faculty, also a member of academic council.

Besides, the authorities also took the decision following the rejection of a High Court writ petition regarding the same issue of Dhaka University, he added.