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Apr
24

The Golden Globe Tiger Awards 2017

The Golden Globe Tigers Award – Education Leadership 24th April 2017 at Pullman City Centre Hotel & Residences, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Educational Institute with Best Academic & Industrial Interface.

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Apr
24

University of Colombo signs a cooperation agreement with Justus Leibig University, Germany

Strengthening the long term partnership between University of Colombo and Justus Leibig University, Germany, Professor Lakshman Dissanayake, the Vice-Chancellor of University of Colombo, and Professor Joybrato Mukherjee, the President of Justus Leibig University, Germany signed the Cooperation Agreement between the universities on 24th April 2017 at University of Colombo. This will open up many more […]

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Apr
22

සරසවි බක් මහ උළෙල 2017

කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය ක්‍රීඩා හා සුබ සාධක සමිතිය විසින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලැබූ “සරසවි බක් මහ උළෙල” අති උත්කර්ශවත් අන්දමින් අප්‍රේල් මස 22 වන දින කොළඹ විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයීය ක්‍රීඩාපිටියේ දී පැවැත්වුණි. ඒ සඳහා ප්‍රධාන ආරාධිත අමුත්තා ලෙස කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයීය උප කුලපති ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ මහාචාර්‍ය ලක්ෂ්මන් දිසානායක මැතිදුන් සහභාගී වුණි.

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Apr
07
Apr
06

BOOK LAUNCH – නූතනත්වය, පශ්චාත් නූතනත්වය සහ නව සමාජ විද්‍යාත්මක න්‍යාය

Prominent Indian Sociologist, Professor S.L. Doshi’s ‘Modernity, Post-modernity and Neo-sociological Theories’ has been edited and translated into Sinhala by Premakumara de Silva and Abeyratne Attanayake as ‘nuthanathwaya, paschath nuthnathwaya and nava samaja vidyatmaka niyaya’ (නූතනත්වය, පශ්චාත් නූතනත්වය සහ නව සමාජ විද්‍යාත්මක න්‍යාය).  It was published by Fast Publishing (private) Limited – Colombo. The book contains [...]
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Apr
03

Law Goes Green 2017

Going another step further, on 3rd April 2017, the Law Goes Green Project undertook the massive task of rising awareness on another highly controversial and much-discussed topic in the community, the ‘climate change’ as its key emphasis for the year and had planned an Inter-University Law Students Research Conference on climate change that was held […]

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Mar
30

Stat Day 2017 – “Statistics for a Better Tomorrow”

The ‘Stat Circle’ is a society formed by the students of the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo. The aims of the Stat Circle are to enhance the statistical knowledge of the students and the outside community and to communicate and exchange ideas with other societies, universities, the industry and school children. The most prominent […]

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Mar
24

Delegation from Taiwan Medical university

Group of delegates from Taipei Medical University Visited Sri Lanka with the view of developing a research collaboration with the university and other stake holders. The group consisted of following members. Delegates had a meeting with the dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo on 23rd of March 2017 at 12.30pm at Dean’s room. Meeting […]

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Mar
22

Open Research Seminar

Senior Professor Lakshman Dissanayake, Vice Chancellor of University of Colombo and Professor of Demography delivered the inaugural open research seminar on Population Dynamic and Social Research on 22nd March 2017 at the FGS Board Room.

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Mar
18

Student Welcome 2017- UCIARS , Weligatta, Hambantota

Senior Professor Lakshman Dissanayake, Vice Chancellor of University of Colombo has participated for the student welcome of 8th Intake of Bachelor of Agro-technology Degree program for farming community in Institute for Agro-technology and Rural Sciences at Weligatta, Hambantota on 18th March 2017. Registrar of University of Colombo, Professor Ranjith Mahanama; Acting Director of UCIARS, Students […]

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Mar
17

Freshers’ Tournament 2017

Freshers’ Tournament 2017 Closing Ceremony was held on 17th of March at the University of Colombo Grounds. Champions – Faculty of Science Runners-up: University of Colombo School of Computing Second runners-up: Faculty of Management & Finance   Photos: www.facebook.com/pg/fosmedia

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Mar
16

Workshop on “Seizing Digital Opportunities in Higher Education”

A workshop on a project titled “Seizing Digital Opportunities in Higher Education: Building staff capacity for ICT‐driven innovation in Cambodia and Sri Lanka” was held on March 15 & 16, 2017 in UCSC premises. It was supported by the Shenzhen Municipal Government within the UNESCO‐Shenzhen Funds‐In‐Trust Framework.

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Mar
14

Mitsubishi UFJ Foundation signs MoU with University of Colombo to award student scholarships

The MoU was signed on 14 March at the University by Professor Lakshman Dissanayake, Vice Chancellor, University of Colombo (UoC), and Yoshiaki Ozawa, Managing Director, Mitsubishi UFJ Foundation. Officials from the Colombo Representative Office of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, the banking entity of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), witnessed the signing of the […]

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Mar
13

Women’s Day 2017

Rosy Senanayake advocates for affirmative action in the form of quotas to increase women’s participation in politics. The chief-guest at the Faculty of Graduate Studies’ Women’s Day commemoration was Ms. Rosy Senanayake.  Ms. Senanayake is currently the deputy chief of staff at the Office of the Prime Minister and the chief spokesperson for the honourable […]

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Mar
11

Inauguration Ceremony – MA in Sinhala 2017/2018

The Inauguration Ceremony of MA in Sinhala 2017/2018 was held on 11th March 2017 at the M. B. Ariyapala Auditorium of Department of Sinhala. Professor Premakumara De Silva, Department of Sociology delivered the Key note speech. Emeritus Professors J. B. Dissanayake, Kusuma Karunarathne, Rohini Paranavithana and Professor Athula Ranasinghe – Dean, Faculty of Arts, Senior […]

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Mar
04

Inauguration Ceremony of Diploma in Sinhala 2017 / 2018

The inauguration ceremony of the Diploma in Sinhala programme, was held on 4th March 2017,  at the M. B. Ariyapala Auditorium, Department of Sinhala.  Mr Saman Panapitiya – Senior Lecturer, University of Performance and Fine Arts, delivered a special speech for diploma candidates.

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