Admission to intermediary classes allowed till next year
View(s):The Education Ministry has decided to permit admissions to intermediary classes to schools until a new system is put in place early next year, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said recently.
Accordingly applications for admission to these classes will be received only until the end of this month, he said.
However, students whose parents have been transferred or have returned from overseas still will be considered for admissions, he added.
The decisions had been taken in view of irregularities in gaining admission to the intermediary classes—grade two to grade five and grade seven to grade 10.
Admissions to grade one was done through a processing of applications while admissions to grade six are based on scholarship exam results.
However, the Education Minister had noticed that students who failed to get admission to grade one or through the scholarship exam results to grade six later on get admission to an intermediary class.
Citing an example, the Minister pointed out that if the cutoff point, based on the scholarship exam results, was 175 marks, some times a year later a student with much less marks such as 145 marks gained admission to another class. He said this was an injustice to scholarship students who may have received 174 and could not get admission.
Accordingly a new system which would address these issues would be drawn up soon and would be implemented early next year, the Minister said.
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