COLOMBO — The small Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka may contribute only 0.03% to global carbon emission levels yet it has set an ambitious target to become carbon neutral by the year 2050.In a ...

Sri Lanka's government has closed down almost all universities for an indefinite period amid a row about the future of education in the island. Academics have been on strike for nearly two months ...

Sri Lanka needs private universities, vocational centres and other institutes of excellence built through private-public partnerships to create opportunities for the vast majority of its children ...

In Sri Lanka, people usually define universities as either ‘state’ or ‘private’. A ‘state’ university, in my opinion, must also be a public entity, i.e., of the state and serving the public of the ...

Additionally, Sri Lanka has emerged as the second-largest host country of UK TNE students, accounting for 10% of all such enrolments globally, with a 50% increase in enrolments, totalling 53,915.

It was only after 1959 that Sri Lanka had more than one university when the SWRD Bandaranaike Government upgraded the two well-known pirivenas to university status as the Vidyodaya University in ...