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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. [1] [2] [3] 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 Sri Palee Campus, known as the western campus of the University of Colombo is located in Wewala, Horana. Located in the Kalutara District on lands and buildings donated to the University of Sri Lanka in 1976 by the board of the Sri Palee Trust set up by the late Wilmot A. Perera, a statesman and philanthropist.
In 1839, the Governor of Ceylon J. A. Stewart Mackenzie started sending Ceylonese students to Calcutta for medical studies to the oldest medical school in South Asia - The Bengal Medical College. In the 1860s the Colonial Surgeon, Dr. James Loos was requested to report on the large depopulation of the Wanni.
The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) is a graduate school it conducts post-graduate degree programs in many fields, via on campus lectures and distance learning. It has the largest number of distance learning course offered via e-learning and m-learning with a student base in both Sri Lanka and the Maldives .
The Sri Palee Campus publishes the International Journal of Communicology (IJC) via the Center for Media Research (CMR). The main task of the Center for Media Research and the International Journal of Communicology is to develop an interface between academics, practitioners, policymakers, and laypersons who are involved in and concerned with ...
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 university moved to the new site on 22 November 1961, under the direction of Sri Soratha Thero. The vice-chancellor invited the Department of Government Archives to establish its archives on the campus, near the university library, to encourage research. The Higher Education Act (No. 20 of 1966) [4] opened Sri Lanka's universities to women.
In 1876 the government started providing scholarships which provided free education at the school and post-graduate studies in Britain. [12] Koch died in 1877 and was replaced by Julian Louis Vanderstraatcn. [6] The school was renamed Ceylon Medical College in 1880. [13] The college's course length was extended to five years in 1884. [8]