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| Thursday, August 02, 2007
Court cannot prescribe qualification: Bench
For admission to higher courses
Madurai: It is for competent authorities and not courts to prescribe
the minimum educational qualification for admission to higher
courses, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has ruled.
Justice K. Chandru gave the ruling while dismissing a batch
of writ petitions seeking to bring down the minimum qualification
for admission to Technical Teachers Certificate Course (TTCC)
from a pass in Plus Two examinations with 45 per cent marks
to a mere pass in Standard X.
He refused to partly quash a notification issued by the Director
of School Education on May 20 calling for applications.
“It is not as if that the petitioners cannot privately
write Plus Two examinations and get themselves qualified to
get into the Technical Teachers Certificate Course. Considering
that the teachers after the training are going to teach schoolchildren,
there cannot be any restriction on the authorities to alter
the minimum educational qualification,” the judge said.
He said courts could not act on sympathy. The petitioners had
not raised legal or constitutional grounds except stating that
a pass in Standard X was the minimum qualification during the
2005 intake. “Even assuming that if there is any right
to education, such a right does not have any corresponding right
to get the standard lowered for any academic training.”
He cited Supreme Court rulings, wherein it was held that courts
should not normally interfere in academic matters unless circumstance
warranted it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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