Don’t make A/L ranking mess-up a political issue – DPF

December 30, 2011, 9:10 pm

By Lal Gunesekera, The Island.

The Democratic People’s Front (DPF) does not want the GCE (Advanced Level) Examination ranking mess up turned into a political issue.

Secretary General of the DPF Dr. Kumar Guruparan said that the mess-up was a creation of Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake, who admitted that the mix-up in the rankings was due to pressure from people with ‘top connections’.

Guruparan said that it was quite unnecessary for Parliament to be summoned urgently from its recess for a debate on that issue as it would only create a ‘mountain out of a molehill’ and affect the image of the country and its education system which is held in high esteem.

Guruparan said that it was the first time such a mess-up had happened in Sri Lanka and he was optimistic that it would never occur again.