Notre Dame can take admission tests

The High Court has allowed Notre Dame College to hold admission tests overruling a government order. The bench of justices M Moazzem Hossain and Md Badruzzaman has stayed an education ministry circular that mandates college admission based on SSC results for Notre Dame College only. The ruling was issued after hearing a plea by the college’s Principal Hemanta Peus Rosario. Barristers Rokanuddin Mahmud and Moin Gani represented the college at the court. Gani said that they had challenged the sections 3, 4 and 9 of the circular. The High Court has stayed the sections for Notre Dame College and asked the ministry and the intermediate education board why those rules would not be declared illegal. The education secretary, Dhaka Intermediate and Secondary Education Board chairman and inspector and the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education have to answer to the rule within four weeks, according to bdnews24.com.