UGC to submit Z-score settlement decision on Sep. 3By Chitra Weerarathne

August 30, 2012, 9:57 pm , The Island

The Supreme Court yesterday advised the University Grants Commission (UGC) to submit on Sept. 3, 2012, settlement in respect of the 2011 GCE A/L Z-Score dispute.

Faiz Mustapha PC, counsel for the UGC, told the Court that several meetings had been held between the members of the UGC, counsel for the petitioner students and the Attorney General. The outcome had been a success.

The petitioner students had recently filed a motion complaining that the authorities had pooled together the re-calculated Z-Scores of the candidates who sat under the examination under the old and the new syllabi. The Court on June 25, 2012, ordered the UGC to re-calculate the Z-Score treating the two syllabi as separate populations.

In the motion, recently filed, the students who sat the examination under the old syllabus have complained that the pooling together of the recalculated Z-Scores of the two populations is unfavourable to the old syllabus candidates. Their chances of university admissions have been impaired, they claim. President’s Counsel Palitha Fernando, the Attorney General appeared for the State.

J. C. Weliamuna and Saliya Pieris appeared for the student petitioners.

The Bench comprised the Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake and Justice K. Sripavan.