Fresh dispute embroils UGC, student group
University Grants Commission and a group of students are embroiled in a fresh dispute with the students group claiming the UGC had not implemented a ruling given by the Attorney General and the parliament which allows students to reapply to an university based on fresh AL results without withdrawing their previous registration for the categories they had applied.

A group of students who had passed the A/L in 2002 and registered in the university under a different category depending on the marks they had obtained. This group had also sat for the A/L in 2003 and received higher marks with which they could register under a higher category. But the UGC had not yet granted approval for students to choose the categories they requested based on the A/L 2003 results.

Students say that Education Minister Karunasena Kodituwakku should have instructed the UGC to allow the students to choose the categories they had requested for after consulting the Attorney general or the parliamentary board if necessary.

However since the deadline for university admissions terminated on September 30 students have been deprived of the opportunity to be registered in a university. Only an extension of the deadline for admission would now allow them to do so.

The students group comprising more than 50 say that they registered earlier based on the 2002 results being unaware what their 2003 results would be.

"Having spent long hours and finance to sit for the 2003 examination and receiving high marks to enter Medical and Engineering faculties have caused great pain of mind as this is the only opportunity we would get to achieve our ambition. This is a great injustice to us", they said.

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