IT and English courses for Uni entrants continuing- ministry says

Dailymirror
Saturday, 13 August 2011 01:55 By Lakna Paranamanna The Higher Education Ministry, while dismissing speculation concerning the English and Information Technology (IT) study programmes for the new university entrants, gave an assurance that the course was being successfully carried out at all 250 centres established countrywide.   Higher Education Ministry Additional Secretary P.G. Jayasinghe said that the course was being run successfully and added they have received positive feedback from its participants. “We have taken measures to distribute the handbook to all the study centres. Some students might have not collected the handbook, but we can certainly say that all the centres have received the handbooks by now,” he added. However, the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) on Wednesday claimed that the study programme had come to a standstill in some of the study centres. They alleged that the lack of handbooks and programme coordinators was the reason for the dysfunctional state of the study centres.  Mr. Jayasinghe commenting on the payment of salaries to programme coordinators, which the IUSF claimed was the reason behind their absence from the centres, said that the salary promised to them, which was  Rs. 40,000, was being paid to coordinators who are engaged in the programme full time.

AGM of Colombo University Alumni

August 12, 2011, 10:15 pm
Island


The 15th anniversary and get-together of the Colombo University Alumni Association will be held on Sunday August 28 at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute commencing at 8.00 a.m.

At the end of the first session some of the alumni who have excelled themselves in the State Service would be felicitated under the patronage of the Vice Chancellor of the University Prof Shanika Hirimburegama.

Among those who will be felicitated are Supreme Court Judge Priyasad Dep, Sceretary, Minister of Finance and Economic Development Dr. P. B. Jayasundara, Vice President of the Asian Olympic Committee and Secretary, Posts and Telecommunications Ministry Hemasiri Fernando, General Manager of the Bank of Ceylon, W. A. Nalani. Chief Government Valuer P. W. Senaratne.

This felicitation ceremony which will include a special lecture by Dr. Jayasundera and a cultural extravaganza, will conclude with sports activities for member families followed by lunch.

The members of the Alumni as well as those who studied at the University are invited.