The Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya
The Secretary to the Ministry of Education has instructed schools or institutions not to collect the funds in question. Addressing the Wickramarachchi Faculty decision, Dr. Harini Amarasuriya said the action was based on a UGC-appointed committee report identifying violations of UGC procedures in launching programmes, and argued that corrective steps are necessary where such violations have caused injustice to students.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 The Secretary to the Ministry of Education has already issued instructions not to collect such funds.
¶ 02 Regarding the Wickramarachchi Faculty decision, I invite the Hon. Leader to read the underlying report; it details the violations of UGC processes in launching programmes. Where violations cause injustice to students, we must correct them, acting on the UGC-appointed committee’s report. If you reject that report, you must say so.
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- Hansard, Thursday, 5 February 2026 ·No. 23269 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 February 2026. No. 23269. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/12983