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Grade One admissions : More students to benefit by Chamitha Kuruppu The Presidential Investigation Unit on Grade One admissions is most likely to complete the second phase of the probe during this week. Therefore, more students who failed to gain Grade One admission will be able to enter leading schools in the island by early next month. During the second phase, the unit has received more than 2500 complaints from parents about corruption in admission to some leading national schools, Presidential Investigation Unit, Director General, A. A. Wickremesinghe told the Sunday Observer. "The Unit receives a large number of complaints daily. Therefore the process will continue for some time. But we will take every possible measure to fill as many as vacancies in leading schools," he said. Meanwhile, Wickremesinghe stressed that the Ministry of Education is 'seriously considering' a new method for Grade One admissions without the involvement of the school principals. "We have not finalised the decision. But we will study the matter and inform Ministry Secretary Dr. Tara de Mel in the near future," Wickremesinghe said. The first report of the Unit said that it had found evidence of over 60 cases of irregular admissions from five leading schools: Ananda College, D.S. Senanayake College, Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda, Dhamissara Vidyalaya, Nattandiya and Maliyadeva Balika Vidyalaya, Kurunegala. |
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