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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.
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.
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]
[6] [7] Around 70 students' unions [8] are affiliated with the confederation, accounting for more than 95% of all higher and further education unions in Sri Lanka. [9] The IUSF is the organization that is given leadership to whole university students in Sri Lanka. [10] It is the largest student organization in Sri Lanka to date.
The university is a state university, with most of its funding coming from the central government via the University Grants Commission (UGC). Therefore, as with all other state universities in Sri Lanka, the UGC recommends its vice-chancellor for appointment by the President of Sri Lanka and makes appointments of its administrative staff.
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
The university had 2,237 students and 338 employees in 2010. [2] It is the thirteenth largest university in Sri Lanka in student numbers. [2] In 2009/10 the university admitted 836 undergraduates. [3] SEUSL had a recurrent budget of Rs. 277 million and a capital budget of Rs. 121 million in 2010. [4]
The University of Sri Lanka was a public university in Sri Lanka. Established in 1972 by amalgamating the four existing universities, it was the only university in Sri Lanka from 1972 until 1978. The university was based at six campuses in Colombo, Peradeniya, Sri Jayewardenepura, Kelaniya, Moratuwa and Jaffna.