Students affected by the Z-score muddle have received the support of two powerful teacher trade unions as the crisis entered its eighth month without a solution in sight. There seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel for students who sat the GCE Advanced Level last year under the old syllabus with [...]

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Students affected by the Z-score muddle have received the support of two powerful teacher trade unions as the crisis entered its eighth month without a solution in sight.

There seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel for students who sat the GCE Advanced Level last year under the old syllabus with the much-talked-about report which President Mahinda Rajapaksa has sought from Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake being delayed further, students lament.

Collecting signatures outside the Colombo Fort Railway Station.

On Wednesday, the affected students gathered outside the Fort Railway Station to collect signatures for a public petition calling for an immediate solution to the issue. The event was organised by the Collective of Students comprising victims of the Z score blunder.

The Collective was also backed by the All Ceylon Graduate Teachers Association (ACGT) and the Independent Lanka Pioneer Teachers’ Association (ILPTA).

“All the students who sat the exam under the old syllabus were exposed to an injustice. We want the authorities to grant us university entrance in not just any faculty but in the faculties, to which we were selected initially when the Z score values were issued for the first time,” said A. A. D. Dhananjaya, one of the organisers of the public petition.

ACGT Secretary E. M. J. Saram said his union together with other teachers’ unions in Sri Lanka would pressurise the government to provide a solution to this crisis. He said his union believed that all the affected students should be granted university entrance.

He warned that if the authorities failed to take immediate measures to correct this blunder, they would take necessary action to support the students’ cause.




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