Reconsider minimum age for admission to professional courses: HC
18/09/2019, MOHAMED IMRANULLAH S.,CHENNAI
The Madras High Court has impressed upon the need for the Centre and State governments, as well as statutory bodies such a Medical Council of India, Dental Council of India and Nursing Council of India, to reconsider the fixation of 17 years as the minimum age for admission into medical, dental, nursing and other courses.
Justice G. Jayachandran said, the minimum age criterion should be revisited at the earliest in view of vast changes taking place in the education system with academically bright students cracking tougher examinations at a young age. Such children’s education should not suffer a break due to the age factor, he added.
The petitioner, S. Malathi, of Nagapattinam, was educationally qualified to be admitted for a bachelor’s course in nursing at a private college. However, she was denied admission since she would be two months short of completing 17 years as on December 31 this year.
Her counsel argued that the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University was not competent to fix the minimum age for admission into nursing in the absence of any instructions from the Nursing Council of India.
On the other hand, the university counsel Ilayaraj Kumar contended that the minimum age was fixed only based on the council’s mandate. The judge held the petitioner would have to wait for one more year to get admission into a nursing course as per the law in force.
18/09/2019, MOHAMED IMRANULLAH S.,CHENNAI
The Madras High Court has impressed upon the need for the Centre and State governments, as well as statutory bodies such a Medical Council of India, Dental Council of India and Nursing Council of India, to reconsider the fixation of 17 years as the minimum age for admission into medical, dental, nursing and other courses.
Justice G. Jayachandran said, the minimum age criterion should be revisited at the earliest in view of vast changes taking place in the education system with academically bright students cracking tougher examinations at a young age. Such children’s education should not suffer a break due to the age factor, he added.
The petitioner, S. Malathi, of Nagapattinam, was educationally qualified to be admitted for a bachelor’s course in nursing at a private college. However, she was denied admission since she would be two months short of completing 17 years as on December 31 this year.
Her counsel argued that the Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University was not competent to fix the minimum age for admission into nursing in the absence of any instructions from the Nursing Council of India.
On the other hand, the university counsel Ilayaraj Kumar contended that the minimum age was fixed only based on the council’s mandate. The judge held the petitioner would have to wait for one more year to get admission into a nursing course as per the law in force.
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