Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Created in January 2019
Revised in July 2023

Daffodil International University (DIU) believes in equality in opportunities and services of the university irrespective of gender, religion, culture, castes etc. DIU is committed to ensure and implement equal treatment and opportunity for its students maintaining an impartial environment and ensuring access, participation and flourishment of women in all academic, administrative and extra-curricular activities. The Directorate of Students’ Affairs will ensure that the following policy guidelines are implemented properly.

1. No barrier or restriction will be imposed on female students’ admission in any program at DIU. Female applicants will be allowed for admission if they fulfill minimum admission criteria.
2. As per admission policy of DIU, female students are encouraged to access and participate in higher education through providing a general 10 percent waiver of tuition fees for all the programs. Additional waiver on tuition fees access or scholarship will be available in case of better semester grades and family crises, for example loss of parents, critical illness of parents, natural disasters etc.
3. Female students will be assigned with a female faculty member from the respective department who will act as their counselor/adviser (must be a teacher) for the entire study period at DIU. The student will be able to meet the assigned counselor during the scheduled time to discuss and take guidance regarding her personal, financial, academic, psychological problems etc. The counselor will carefully listen to the student and try to guide them to solve the problem. The counselor will arrange psychological treatment for the student from DIU Medical Center or outside hospital.
4. Student counseling & Admission department will keep separate records of all male and female applicants who applied for admission and who got admitted. The office of the Controller of Examinations of DIU will track and maintain separate records of male and female students graduated from each program in each semester.
5. The female students will have equal opportunity and open access to be member of any of the students clubs of the university and participate to any events organized. The female students will take the opportunity of separate toilet facility available to them in each floor of every building of the university.
6. The University Administration will ensure childcare facilities for student mother and female faculty. The female faculty members will enjoy the existing maternity leave provision of DIU.
7. The Directorate of Students’ Affairs (DSA) will guide, motivate and provide assistance to the students, especially the female and disabled for accessing all relevant facilities and services (i.e., transport, child care, library, gymnasium, hostel, club, ramp for disabled person, medical, counseling, lab, laptop etc.) of the university.
8. DSA in collaboration with NGOs, educational institutions, local community will carry out outreach activities to encourage the women to get admitted in different subjects such as, engineering, mathematics, journalism, real estate etc. where they are underrepresented.
9. DSA in collaboration with the Medical Centre of DIU will execute health and safety issues for the female students.