Sri Lanka universities considering admittance of 3,000 more students as redress to Z-score issue
Sun, Jul 29, 2012, 08:09 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

July 29, Colombo: The Chairman of Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission Prathibha Mahanama Hewa says that the higher education authorities have agreed to consider taking in 3,000 more students in the next batch.
The Chairman of the HRC said that the move is aimed at redressing the G.C.E. Advanced Level examination students who claim they lost admissions to the universities due to change of Z-score results.
The Commission has also recommended to the Ministry of Higher Education to obtain legal advice from the Attorney General's Department to grant relief to the students who have lost chance.
The Commission says that this discussion was held since it is practically difficult to consider around 1,000 petitions that have been received from the Advanced Level students.
The students have complained that their rights have been violated by the whole fiasco over the national exam results which select the university entrants.