The High Court on Monday ordered the issue of notices to the State Education Secretary, DSERT, DIET and Karnataka State Secondary Education Board, following a petition by Saraswati and eight others from Tamil Nadu, challenging the disapproval of their admissions to a DEd course during 2006-07.

They had been admitted to four private DEd colleges in Bangalore. They challenged the DIET Principal’s endorsements issued in October 2007, which refused to approve their admissions.

Their admissions had not been approved on the grounds that they had not taken two elective subjects prescribed for commerce students to join DEd courses. Thirty six students admitted to the BES Institute of Technology, run by the Bharath Education Society, Bangalore, moved the High Court seeking permission to take up semester examinations scheduled later this month.

The petition, filed by the students as well as the Society, said that the technical education department had kept the institute under the ‘No Admission’ category for 2007-08, over non-adherence to infrastructure norms.