The Higher Education Commission will announce the central admission results late this afternoon, three days earlier than scheduled, a senior official said yesterday.

Deputy secretary-general Jiranee Tantirattanawong said the results should be available from either 4pm or 6pm on the commission's website at www.cuas.or.th, as well as at the following alliance sites: www.sanook.com, www.msn.co.th, www.thaistudent.info, www.gpa.moe.go.th, www.spu.ac.th, www.utcc.ac.th and www.eduzone.com.

The results can also be checked via SMS on the AIS and DTAC networks.

Deputy Education Minister Varakorn Samkoses will also announce the lowest and highest scores for each faculty and subject at 11am today, Jiranee said.

This is for the 106,000 qualified examinees under the criteria of the University Presidents Council of Thailand (UPCT).

Jiranee added that the announcement of the central admission results should not present any problems, as the "lessons of last year" have been learnt.

For the 1,700 people who completed Grade 12 before 2005, Jiranee said representatives of the 57 universities at which the students had chosen to study, would be called in for a meeting today to conclude how best to consider this group for student intakes.

Some students in this group were engaged in a battle over the Ordinary National Educational Test (O-Net) scores - which since last year have become the main criterion in university admissions - in the Administrative Court.

Hundreds sat the O-Net again this year to boost their chances of entering their preferred university, but the UPCT insisted that only O-Net scores from their first test-taking counted in the admissions, because it was meant to measure a student's academic ability at completion of Grade 12.

The Khon Kaen Administrative Court had issued an injunction against authorities using the university-admission criteria an-nounced by the UPCT, but the injunction was suspended on appeal by the Supreme Adminis-trative Court.

Yesterday, the Supreme Admi-nistrative Court cancelled the Khon Kaen Administrative Court's injunction on grounds that it would "obstruct the state agency's work".

The verdict reading was conducted in the afternoon at both the Supreme Administration Court and the Khon Kaen Administra-tion Court.

Upon hearing the verdict at Khon Kaen, some students who completed Grade 12 before 2005 expressed their unhappiness, as they viewed it as a limitation of a student's right to take admission exams.

They insisted they wanted the admission criteria to be changed next year.

Thammasat University rector Surapol Nitikraipoj said the verdict by the Supreme Administra-tive Court had allowed this year's university admission process to "get back on track" in line with UPCT criteria.