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Vice-Chancellor’s message – COVID-19 Outbreak Notices | Upscale its digital facilities
Aug
01

Vice-Chancellor’s message – COVID-19 Outbreak Notices | Upscale its digital facilities

Dear Members of Staff & Students, I convey to you my sincere greetings and best wishes for a healthy, gainful, and fulfilling month of August. We have completed 16 months of living, working, studying and progressing despite the perpetual threat imposed to our health and safety from the SARS Cov-2. Back in February 2020, we […]

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No. 1 among Sri Lankan Universities in the Webometrics Ranking – New edition: July 2021
Jul
28

No. 1 among Sri Lankan Universities in the Webometrics Ranking – New edition: July 2021

The University of Colombo is pleased to announce that we have retained the top position among Sri Lankan Universities in the July 2021 edition of Webometrics Ranking. This classifies university visibility, transparency and indicators of excellence, which illustrates the teaching commitment, research results, the perceived international prestige and links with the community, industrial and economic [...]
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World Population Day 2021
Jul
11

World Population Day 2021

The modern world blending with technology creates pathways to boost the human population. This creates many problems and in attempts to find solutions, we try to control nature. But don't forget we are only a part of this natural system. Let's not try to control nature and go beyond. It's always the other way around. [...]
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24th Annual General Meeting of the MBA Alumni Association
Jul
08

24th Annual General Meeting of the MBA Alumni Association

The Colombo University MBA Alumni Association recently held its 24th Annual General Meeting with Boshan Dayaratne installed as the 25th President, succeeding Ranga Ratnayake following completion of his one-year term. Chief Guest at the hybrid event was Dialog Axiata Plc Group CEO Supun Weerasinghe and the Guest of Honour was University of Colombo Vice Chancellor [...]
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Research on Language Rights and Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Jul
08

Research on Language Rights and Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

ENGLISH සිංහල தமிழ் The Center for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR), with the support of NLEAP, has embarked on pivotal research on Language Rights, Gender Equality, and Women's Empowerment. The research seeks to explore the impact of language rights policies and programmes on gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) in Sri Lanka. The research [...]
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Sri Lankan Bats and Bat-Coronaviruses
Jun
25

Sri Lankan Bats and Bat-Coronaviruses

ENGLISH සිංහල தமிழ் New Scientific Finding by the Scientists of the University of Colombo; Sri Lankan Bats and Bat-Coronaviruses "Corona" has been a word that tormented a whole world for more than a year since the end of 2019. What is this Corona? It created a global level pandemic by infecting more than 180 million [...]
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Danno Budunge “දන්නෝ බුදුන්ගේ” – Virtual choir arrangement by Euphony
Jun
24

Danno Budunge “දන්නෝ බුදුන්ගේ” – Virtual choir arrangement by Euphony

In honour of the Poson Poya Day which marks the arrival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Euphony, the Official Choir of the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo proudly presents their virtual choir arrangement of "Danno Budunge".
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World Environment Day 2021
Jun
05

World Environment Day 2021

World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5th to raise awareness of the environment and enhance the attention and action towards protecting it. The theme of World Environment Day 2021 is Ecosystem Restoration. Unless we come up with effective remedies to the wounds of nature that man has already inflicted, the survival of [...]
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Sri Lanka’s chemical cargo shipwreck could become an “intergenerational” disaster
Jun
04

Sri Lanka’s chemical cargo shipwreck could become an “intergenerational” disaster

An Interview with Dr. Kokila Konasinghe by the ABC (Australian National Television) TV Following the devastating environmental catastrophe caused by the fire which erupted onboard the MV X-Press Pearl, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) TV interviewed Dr. Kokila Konasinghe, Director of the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP) of the University of Colombo, regarding the [...]
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Marine ecological disaster in Sri Lanka’s coast 2021
Jun
03

Marine ecological disaster in Sri Lanka’s coast 2021

ENGLISH සිංහල தமிழ் We are shocked to acknowledge probably the worst marine ecological disaster that ever happened off Sri Lanka`s coast as the cargo ship X-Press Pearl caught fire on 20th May at 9.5 nautical miles away from the port of Colombo. Reportedly, it was carrying a consignment of tonnes of hazardous toxic chemicals, including [...]
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THE Asia University Rankings 2021
Jun
02

THE Asia University Rankings 2021

On 2nd June 2021, the University of Colombo was ranked 301-350 among 551 Universities in Asia by Times Higher Education World University Ranking Asia Category. Reaching this higher position in the league table during the year 2021, reflects cohesive dedication and commitment of a large group of stakeholders. This upscaled ranking, of the only metropolitan [...]
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Local Chinese Teachers’ Training in Sri Lanka
May
21

Local Chinese Teachers’ Training in Sri Lanka

The Confucius Institute, University of Colombo together with the National Institute of Education successfully conducted the “Local Chinese Teachers’ Training in Sri Lanka 2021” on 20th – 21st May 2021. This event was carried out in the form of online via zoom platform. Fifty-three Chinese teachers from various schools across Sri Lanka participated in this […]

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Webinar on Climate Change and its impact on Sri Lanka
May
20

Webinar on Climate Change and its impact on Sri Lanka

Department of Geography organized a webinar on Climate Change and Its Impact on 20th May 2021. Mr. Sarath Premalal, – former Director General, Meteorological Department, Sri Lanka, Dr. Senaka Basnayake – Director, Climate Resilience Unit, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, Bangkok, Dr. B. V. R. Punyawardhane – former Director, Meteorology Division, Natural Resource Management Centre, Peradeniya, […]

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Workshop on Effective Proposal Writing and Thereafter…
May
17

Workshop on Effective Proposal Writing and Thereafter…

First in a series of workshops organized by the Research Committee, Faculty of Science The Research Committee of the  Faculty of Science plans to organize a series of workshops, in order to strengthen and promote a sound research culture in the faculty. The first such workshop titled “Effective Proposal Writing and Thereafter…” was held on May [...]
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Notice to all Staff – University Functions Without Interruption
May
11

Notice to all Staff – University Functions Without Interruption

This is further to my previous letters dated 28.04.2021 on 'Reporting to work of University staff' & 03.05.2021 on ''Administrative functioning and activities of the University of Colombo' and the decisions taken at the Special meeting held on 10th May 2021 with officials of the University. Please adhere with the following instructions. In line with [...]
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No. 1 among Sri Lankan Universities in the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) 2021
Apr
30

No. 1 among Sri Lankan Universities in the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) 2021

The University of Colombo is pleased to announce that it has retained its top position among Sri Lankan Universities in the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) 2021. This is a classification of academic and research-related institutions ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance, innovation outputs, and societal […]

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