‘Z-score’ advisory committee meets today

July 10, 2012, 9:23 pm 

by Dasun Edirisinghe, the island

The committee appointed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to advise the University Grants Commission (UGC) on how to implement the Supreme Court directive on the calculation of the ‘Z score’, would meet for the first time today.

The six-member committee, headed by Presidential Secretary Lalith Weeratunga, includes Chancellor of the Peradeniya University P. W. Epasinghe, Prof. R. O Thattil, Prof. Sarath Kulatunga, Prof. Sarath Banneheka and Prof. P. Ariyaratna.

Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ordered that the ‘Z-score’ be calculated separately for students who sat the GCE (A/L) examination under the new and old syllabi in 2011.

The committee would meet at the Presidential Secretariat.