Dhaka, May 21 -- The Vice-Chancellor of the National University has been injured in an attack by students demanding automatic pass for their examinations.

Professor Dr A S M Amanullah was assaulted outside the university's administrative building in Gazipur on Wednesday afternoon, Bangla-language daily Samakal reports.

The Vice-Chancellor was entering the building when a group of students surrounded and attacked him, according to Mostafizur Rahman, acting Director of the Public Relations Office at the National University.

University officials said the students, from the 2022 undergraduate (pass) batch, have been protesting for several days, calling for an "auto pass" -- a system that would allow students to pass without sitting for exa...