A decision by Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Higher Education to allow private
universities to offer degrees, including medical qualifications, without
seeking the approval of professional bodies has sparked a row with major
professional groups.
Doctors, lecturers, students, trade unions and bodies including the Sri
Lanka Engineering Institute, Government Medical Officers’ Association and the
Sri Lanka Medical Council, or SLMC, have called on the ministry to withdraw the
official gazette notification issued last week.
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