University education:
Plans are under way to increase the students intake for local universities by 3,000 from next year. About 25,000 students would be admitted to Universities for the next academic year scheduled to start by June 2011, said Higher Education Minister S B Dissanayake. He was addressing the annual prize giving of the Hanguranketha Sirimavo Bandaranaike Balika Vidyalaya.
The Education Ministry will release A-L results in the next month and by January students for the next academic year will be identified. The Higher Education Ministry will supply Laptop computers for those students spending Rs two billion. A special three month English course will be conducted as the first step by June. Those who fail the English course will train again. They will learn English on-line via Vidatha Centres, Dissanayake said.
Nearly 200,000 schoolchildren sit for the A-L examination every year and 120,000 are qualified for university entrance.
Because of the capacity problem, nearly 21,000 students were selected to universities last year. In 2005, it was only 15,000 students.
Courtesy - Daily News - By Dinesh DE ALWIS
