The government has undertaken to set up non-state universities through
the Board of Investment (BoI), leaving aside the Higher Education Ministry only
to standardize such academic institutions, officials said yesterday.
Accordingly, ten foreign universities have sent their applications
seeking approval to establish their campuses in Sri Lanka. They are mainly from the countries such as
the United Kingdom and India.
The newly formed ‘Investment Promotion Ministry’ says in its website, “ the State university system
performs as the main provider of the university systems, the establishment of
private universities will be encouraging the government to attract around
50,000 foreign students to Sri Lanka through proposed private universities.
These universities are also expected to absorb, on average the 12,000 Sri
Lankan students leaving the country for higher education and thereby protecting
foreign exchange savings and earnings.”
There are only 15 state university sector, six post graduate institutes and nine other
degree awarding universities in the country now.
Asked for a comment, Higher Education Ministry Secretary Dr. Sunil
Jayantha Navaratne said that the Ministry had already set up the ‘Standing
Committee on Accreditation’ to regulate both state and non-state universities.
“We have taken this step under the Universities Act. We will issue necessary Gazette notifications
soon,” he said.
Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake told journalists recently
that there were already 19 properly functioning private degree awarding
institutions in Sri Lanka.
“A student can follow a management degree at Rs.400,000/500,000, while
an engineering course at around one million rupees. If we bring in more private
universities, there will be price reductions due to competition,” he said.
Already, a 120-acre land has been released for the establishment of a
branch campus of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), a US$ 100
million (Around Rs.12 billion) investment.
Extract From Online DailyMirror
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