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Established by Lalith Athulathmudali, the Minister of Trade and Shipping through the Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund Act No. 66 of 1981, its objective is the provision of financial assistance to students undertaking higher education.
It collaborates with foreign universities and allows students to follow those courses in Sri Lanka. The Centre for Postgraduate Studies or 'PG Centre' at IIT was started in 2001 with a collaboration with Keele University, England, to conduct Keele MSc programmes in Sri Lanka. More than 250 students have gained their MSc degree from Keele. [1]
University Grants Commission is the body responsible for funding most of the State Universities in Sri Lanka, and operates within the frame work of the Universities Act No. 16 of 1978. A public organisation, established under the Parliament Act No 16 of 1978.
Since 2021, following its transformation into a university, the institute has expanded its curriculum to include not only indigenous medicine but also modern medicine and technology, management, and other disciplines as outlined in the Sri Lanka University Grants Commission handbook.
The Open University of Sri Lanka is currently ranked as No.9 among Sri Lankan Universities and No. 6353 among international Universities. [2] The concept of establishing the Open University of Sri Lanka in 1978 by Cabinet Minister of Education & Higher Education at the time Dr. Nissanka Wijeyeratne
National School of Business Management was founded in 2011 as the degree awarding university under the National Institute of Business Management to award undergraduate and post-graduate degrees. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Followed by a series of government protocols, the approval was granted to set up a higher education institute named National School of ...
It was dissolved in 1972 to establish the University of Sri Lanka. In 1974 the Jaffna campus was added to the University of Sri Lanka. [5] [6] [7] The change of the government in July 1977 led to dismantling of the single university apparatus with the plan of establishing independent universities. With the promulgation of the Universities Act.
The Universities Act No. 16 of 1978 radically altered university education in Sri Lanka. The University of Sri Lanka was abolished and its six campuses (Colombo, Peradeniya, Sri Jayewardenepura, Kelaniya, Moratuwa and Jaffna) were each elevated to independent, autonomous universities. A gazette was issued on 22 December 1978 establishing the ...