Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake today stated that action will be taken against private buses which provide transport for undergraduates who are due to protest in Colombo tomorrow (3).

The Minister stated that he has requested the police and Private Transport Minister C.B. Rathnayake to advice bus owners against transporting students who plan to agitate in Colombo today. The police will take immediate action against the buses if route permits are not obtained first, he told the media during a press briefing at the Hi

An organization calling itself the  ‘People’s Wall of Comradeship’ (PWC) which includes members of the JVP today said the authorities were constructing Military Camps in the Northern Province and focusing on militarisation instead of establishing democracy in the region.
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They said about 6000 acres lands of the Northern people had been acquired by the military forces and alleged Minister Douglas Devananda’s supporters of getting hold on to a land illegally in Jaffna. 

Despite the Court decision that all students under suspension should be allowed to sit their examinations, the Sabaragamuwa University has not allowed one student under suspension to sit his examination, student activists alleged.

 All faculty students association charged university authorities have prevented one student from sitting for ‘Environmental Management’ and auditing paper which was scheduled for 18, which was after a restraining order was imposed on the University authorities by Courts not to preven

The Open University Teachers’ Association has vehemently condemned a statement made by the Minister for Higher Education S. B Dissanayake on the attack on the Head of the Department of Legal Studies at the Open University.

The Minister has stated in parliament when questioned about the attack on Ms Yashodara Kadiragamathambi, that there are no opportunities for students and academics to interact at the Open University and that Ms Kadiragamathambi only comes to work once a month.

The undergraduates of the Sri Jayewardenepura University (SJU), Medical Faculty, have decided to boycott lectures until such time the final decision with regard to the disciplinary inquiry conducted against the 25 undergraduates subjected to temporary suspension is announced.

 

The undergraduates had held a demonstration on 5 June raising objections over the readmission of a group of sacked Peradeniya medical students sans any transparency.

After receiving O/Level results the ever so popular option will be to do A/Level. Doing London/ local A/Level is the traditional option. According to University Grants Commission (UGC) only 10% out of the 230,000 A/Level candidates are privileged to study in the State university system. That means more than 200,000 students fail to achieve their objectives with A/Level.

The teachers' union at Sri Jayewardenepura University has decided to initiate a trade union action demanding the reinstatement of a dismissed colleague, local media reported.

The teachers' union which is affiliated to the Federation of University Teachers' Associations (FUTA), and it is reported that the  Senate of Sri Jayewardenepura University  which will meet today need to  reinstate the sacked lecturer Anuruddha Pradeep Karnasooriya.

More than been suspended within a period of one week in a 'mass-scale' attempt at student suppression by the Higher Education Ministry, the Socialist Students' Union (SSU), alleged yesterday (10).

Speaking to Ceylon Today, SSU National Organizer, Nalinda Jayatissa, said to date, over been suspended, and six student unions have been disbanded and banned in universities, while 138 students were suspended within a week.