Sri Lanka’s
Higher Education Ministry has increased the quota of international students
admitted to universities and is offering additional scholarships to foreign
students in its aim of becoming a higher education hub in Asia. But the moves
have met with resistance amid fears that the number of places for local
students will be reduced.Full Story : Click
The foreign
student quota was recently increased from just 0.5% to 5% of the student intake
at local universities.
The ministry
said it hoped that around 1,000-4,000 fee-paying foreign students would be
admitted in the course of the next three years – many of them from China,
although the majority would be from other South Asian countries.
“We're doing
our best to promote our country and bring in foreign income. We hope about
1,000 Chinese undergraduates will arrive here to pursue higher studies later
this year,” Deputy Higher Education Minister Nandimithra Ekanayake said during
a media briefing.
The minister
said 1,292 new slots were available for foreign students in local universities
this year. Full Story : Click
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