18 Sri Jayewardenepura University Students suspended

Sri Jayewardenepura University administration has decided to suspend the studentships of 18 undergraduates allegedly involved in assaulting its security officers and causing damage to university property recently.

The majority facing suspensions were from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, sources said.

They said those 18 had been accused of instigating other students to attack the university’s security officials on the night of Feb 24. Three members of the security staff had been injured in the attack. The security staff members had identified the students who had assaulted them and had handed over information pertaining to those students to the university administration.

The suspension decision had been taken on the basis of that information, a senior official of the university said.

The members of the non-academic staff of the university staged a demonstration and boycotted work on Tuesday (25) condemning the attack and demanding action against the attackers.

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33 Pera University Students suspended

33 Uni students of Peradeniya Campus suspended over ragging incident.

Thirty three students of the Peradeniya University had been suspended indefinitely over a ragging incident, the University administration said today.

Disciplinary Officer of the Peradeniya University Dr. Asoka Dangalla said that 33 students from the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences were involved in the ragging incident.

The university’s administration had conducted a disciplinary inquiry regarding the incidents, he said.

He further said 25 students of the second year including eight female students and eight students of the third year were among the suspended students.

Source – Daily Mirror

GCE A/L Private Candidate Applications for Exam

Sri Lanka Department of Education invites applications for the  G.C.E (A/L) Examination applications for the Private candidates.

The Applications of private candidates for the above examination will be closed on Februray 15th.

Application Forms Can Be Download from Here >> http://www.doenets.lk

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Inter-international Schools Athletics Championship-Lyceum Wattala won

Lyceum International School Wattala won the Inter-international Schools Athletics Championship (ISAC) 2014 gaining 854 points. Gateway College Colombo won the 2^nd place gaining 678 points. Nugegoda Lyceum International School won the 3^rd place gaining 579 points.

International schools athletics meet from Feb 21 Only one school possesses decent ground but the meet has produced medal winning athletes for the country

The 14th edition of Inter-international Schools Athletics Championship (ISAC) held for three days from February 21 at the Sugathadasa Stadium. Gateway College organized of the event for the eighth time. More than 3000 athletes and 15000 spectators participated for the event.

කොළඹ සුගතදාස ක්‍රීඩාංගනයේදී නිමාවට පත් වුණු 2014 ජාත්‍යන්තර පාසල් මලල ක්‍රීඩා තරඟාවළියේ ශූරතාවය අඛණ්ඩව හය වන වරටත් දිනා ගැනීමට වත්තල ලයිසියම් ජාත්‍යන්තර පාසල සමත්විය.

ජයග්‍රාහී ලයිසියම් ජාත්‍යන්තර පාසල ලකුණු 854 ක් ලබාගත් අතර සත්කාරක කොළඹ ගේට්වේ ජාත්‍යන්තර පාසල ලකුණු 677.83 ක් ලබාගනිමින් අනු ශූරතාවයද, ලකුණු 579 ක් ලබාගත් නුගේගොඩ ලයිසියම් ජාත්‍යන්තර පාසල තෙවැනි ස්ථානයටද පත් විය.

Source - Lankadeepa

"We started this championship at Shalika ground in 2001 as a small event under the guidance of the founding father RIT Alles, and today this has become a flagship event among the leading International schools in the country," said Dr. Harsha Alles, Chairman of The International School of Sri Lanka (TISSL) and the Chairman of Gateway College.

Athletes from 25 international schools will compete in 130 events where 300 officials will be busy conducting competition under rules and regulation of the Athletics Association of Sri Lanka.

 "Over the years our athletes from International Schools have gone beyond school level and won international medals for the country. All of them came through this ISAC championship," Dr. Alles added.

Shehan Ambepitiya, Nadeeshani Henderson, Ireshani Rajasinghe, Keith de Mel are a few of them from Gateway College who won international medals for Sri Lanka.

 The championship will be fully computerized from web based entries, to instant access of results and scores through isaclk.com, which has been designed and developed by Gateway Consultancy Services.

"We are developing day by day. We have produced international medal winners for the nation over the last few years. Only one school out of 25 schools of us has a proper ground. Yet our schools have taken care of their athletes in order to produce best results. We should appreciate their tremendous service," said Dr. Alles.

"There are over 40,000 students in our 25 schools and well over 95% of them are Sri Lankans and these are students who aren't a burden for the system and of course we invite everyone to watch their talent at Sugathadasa Stadium over three days," Dr. Alles said.

Best male and female athletes of the last year Udantha Bandara and Shanika Fernando will light the Olympic torch. The CEO of SLT Mobitel Kapila Chandrasena will participate as chief guest at the opening ceremony.

Managing Director of main sponsor of the event, Pearson's Qualification International, Manos Kapererian will fly here from UK to grace the closing ceremony.

Source - CeylonToday

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Clash at University of Sri Jayewardenepura 1 Security Officer Injured

Clash reported at University of Sri Jayewardenepura between group of students and security officers today evening. It is reported that one Security Officer injured and hospitalized.
A group of students from the university hostel had reportedly attacked the security post at the entrance at around 8.10pm with stones. 

One security guard was injured from the attack and has been admitted to the hospital, Mirihana Police said.

The situation has been brought under control while a large number of police personnel have been station at the university premises, police said.

According to police, a group of students had attacked the guardroom at the university during the clashes. Investigations are ongoing to arrest the suspects.

Today new batch of students has arrived to the university as freshers. Japura university security service is doing Rakna Arakshaka Lanka Ltd. Rakna Arakshaka Lanka Ltd is a government owned Security Company which functions under the Ministry of Defence.

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The non-academic staff of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura launched a one-day token strike yesterday, in protest of the university security officers being attacked by several undergraduates on Monday night (24).

One security officer had sustained injuries during the clash with the hostel students, and was admitted to the Kalubowila Hospital as a result, the police said.

According to the university's students' union, what had caused the clash was the hostel security personnel forcing their way into a first-year undergraduate's boarding premises and attempting to intimidate the student.

According to Jayewardenepura University Students Union President, Sampath Wickramasinghe, the university security personnel are responsible for continually harassing students. He also claimed the university authorities were attempting to repress all forms of student activism and had banned 122 students from attending lectures whilst cancelling the studentship of 40 more.

"The security guards went into the hostel of one of the first year undergraduates and were threatening the student. This had subsequently led to a clash between the other students and the security, and one of the security officers was injured. The university administration has to take the responsibility for this incident, because they haven't created a safe and secure environment for the students," Wickremesinghe said.

Meanwhile, Jayewardenepura University Teachers' Association (JUTA) President, Anura Kumara, told, the university authorities were looking into the matter and that the students had also been attacked. However, the non-academic staff launched a one-day token strike to protest against the attack on the security guard, he added.

Source - CeylonToday

 

Big Match Cricket Season 2014-Sri Lanka School -ROYTHO Today

The 135th ‘Battle of the Blues’ Big Match,the 2nd longest uninterrupted cricket match series in the world, between Royal College and S. Thomas’ College to be played at the Sinhalese Sports Club grounds (SSC) Colombo on 13th, 14th and 15th March at 9am onward.

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School Big Match Cricket Season 2014 in Sri Lanka. 

The Annual School cricket matches between rival schools is a very popular event in Sri Lanka. Many of the annual `big’ matches are held in March or April and the most famous and awaited of these all are the annual Royal - Thomian cricket match,Ananda -Nalanda,Mahinda-Richmond,Dharmaraja–Kingswood,Trinity-Anthony’s and Jaffna Central–St.John. 
Big Matches form an important part of modern Sri Lankan culture with both school children and adults taking part in much of the activity that is part of the annual matches.

·        Royal–Thomian (1879 – present)

·        Dharmaraja–Kingswood (1893 – present)

·        Central–St.John (North) (1901 – present) (interrupted)

·        Richmond–Mahinda (1905 – present)

·        Trinity-Anthony’s (1914–present)

·        Ananda-Nalanda (1924 – present)

·        St Peter's-St. Joseph's (1933 – present)

·        Maliyadeva-St. Anne's (1959 – present)

·        Thurstan-Isipathana (1964–present)

·        Royal Panadura-St. John's(1992–present)

      ·        Royal Wayamba -Sir John Kotalawala (2005-present)

The 135th Battle of Blues Big Match cricket encounter between Royal College and S. Thomas’ College will take place at the Sinhalese Sports Club SSC ground on March 13, 14 and 15 2014.

The 85th Battle of Maroons Big Match cricket encounter between Ananda and Nalanda College will take place at the R Premadasa Cricket Statium on April 4  and 5 2014. The One Day Encounter is on 6th April at R.Premadasa Ground Colombo.

The Big Match cricket encounter between Mahanama and DS will take place at the P saravanamuttu ground on March **  and ** 2014. The One Day Encounter is on **th March at SSC Ground Colombo.

The 108th Lovers' Quarrrel the Big Match cricket encounter between Mahinda College Galle - MCG and Richmand College  will take place at the Galle Stadium on March 21 and 22 , 2014. 

The Richmond–Mahinda Cricket Encounter is an annual cricket big match played between the first XI cricket teams of Richmond College and Mahinda College in Galle, Sri Lanka. It is one of the longest cricket match series in Sri Lanka, having been played for 109 years. The match is also known as the "Lovers' Quarrel" in public and it is played at the Galle International Stadium. Lovers' Quarrel was begun in 1905. Live Match & Score >>>

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EDEX EXPO EXHIBITION & JOB FAIR SRILANKA

Sri Lanka’s largest Education exhibition and job fair is EDEX Expo.

EDEX 2014 Mid Year Expo & Job Fair will held on August 2014 at BMICH, Colombo.

Edex Expo 2014 was held on January 17 to 19 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) and on January 24 and 25 at the Kandy City Centre (KCC), for the eleventh consecutive time.

Official Web Site – www.edex.lk

Exemplifying another significant approach this year, the event was concurrently hold a Job Fair with the concept of bringing about that much needed boost in filling the gap between what today's' youth harness in terms of education and what society holds in job and career opportunities.

The event at the BMICH was see representatives of 300 stalls in total where 250 of those from local and global entities, from 20 countries and 80 stalls at KCC.

EDEX Expo the largest national scale twin exhibition in the country. Growing with participant and visitor numbers year on year, EDEX is now the single largest nationwide platform connecting Sri Lankan youth with choices, options and opportunities in post-secondary, graduate and postgraduate levels, technical and vocational training and skills development, leading to gainful employment.

Official Web Site – www.edex.lk
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