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47 Bio repeat students to enter Medical College

by Manjula Fernando

Forty seven Bio stream repeat students who were denied Medicine under the new Z-score university selection criteria earlier, will be admitted to the Medical Faculty on a special Cabinet approval shortly.

Education Minister Dr.Karunasena Kodituwakku told reporters at Isurupaya yesterday that he obtained Cabinet approval to admit 2001 Advanced Level examination repeat students on a different selection criteria, at Wednesday's Cabinet meeting.

"This will benefit 222 A/L repeat students. They will get more popular faculties for those who have already been selected and university admission to 67 previously overlooked students," he said.

According to the Cabinet approval, 14 students will be transferred to the Dental Faculty, 24 to Veterinary, 5 Food and Nutrition, 69 Agriculture, 45 Bio Science, 3 Computer Science, 6 IT and 5 Quantitative Analysis.

The Minister will also appoint a Parliamentary select committee shortly to decide whether to retain this controversial selection criteria in future.

Dr.Kodituwakku said: "This criteria was designed during the previous government. We simply implemented what has already been prepared." He said there would not have been so much opposition if awareness was created on this issue.

The Z-score was designed by a three member panel of UGC nominated university professors a few years ago. It was first introduced last year amidst protests by students who repeated the examination for the last time in 2001 since they offered four subjects according to the old exam structure.

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