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| Monday, 1 September 2003 |
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by Wasantha Ramanayake A student who sat for the G.C.E. Advanced Level examination in April, 2003, filed a fundamental rights application in the Supreme Court against the Gazette Notification which deprived her from applying for the admission to a National Colleges of Education. Petitioner Dulani Lasitha Gamage of Galle cited the Chairaman Colleges of Education Board, the Board of the Colleges of Education and the Attorney General as respondents. Petitioner claimed that she sat for the G.C.E. A/L exam in August 2000. Later she unsuccessfully applied for admission for the said colleges for the year 2003, under the earlier procedure. She claimed that she sat for the said Advanced Level examination in April 2003 in order to gain higher qualifications to enter the said Colleges for the year 2004. She alleged that she had been prevented from doing so in terms of a gazette notice dated August 1, which had changed the previous criteria for the admission for the said educational colleges. In terms of the said gazette notice, only the candidates who had sat for the A\L examination in the years 2001 and 2002 would be eligible to apply for the admission to said colleges for the year 2004. She further alleged that she could not even apply for the admission for the year 2005, since the said gazette notification only permitted to apply for the year 2005, for those who would sit for the A\L examination in 2004. She stated that under the previous criteria she would be eligible to apply for the year 2005. She alleged that the said change of criteria was arbitrary and in violation of her fundamental rights. The petitioner sought a court order directing to republish the said gazette enabling the candidates who sat for the A\L examination in 2003 to apply for the admission. |
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