ADMISSION CRITERIA
The Supreme Administrative Court has overruled a decision by the Administrative Court that rejected a lawsuit by students who asked that the results of the Ordinary National Education Test (O-Net), the grade point average (GPA) and the cumulative grade-point average (GPAX) scores be scrapped as criteria for university admission.
Three students, led by Natthasak Thawisuwan, a former Mathayom 6 (Grade 12) student of Rattanakosinsompotch school, earlier filed a suit with the Administration Court against the Council of University Rectors and 21 public universities for changing the university entrance system into a new central admission system in which results of the O-Net tests, the GPA and GPAX scores were used as criteria for admission.
The students said use of the new criteria for admission was unfair and violated the constitution. The court rejected the suit, saying it was outside the scope of its authority.
But the court's decision was yesterday overruled by the Supreme Administrative Court, saying that though the council's resolution on the criteria for university admission in 2008 was not an administrative order, use of those criteria made the resolution become an administrative order. The students who filed the suit did not ask for the scrapping of the system. They only wanted some criteria revoked and replaced by new ones.
Monthon Sa-nguansermsri, rector of Naresuan University and chairman of the Council of University Rectors, said he would consult legal experts about the decision.
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