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by Thava Sajitharan

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga will lay the foundation stone for the Uva Wellassa University (UWU) today in Passara, Badulla. The prolonged sigh for a university in the Uva province finds solace with the establishment of UWU. Cabinet approved the proposal to establish a new university in the Uva province in October 2004. President has appointed Justice P. Ramanathan as the new chancellor for a period of five years and Prof. Chandra Embuldeniya as the Vice-Chancellor with effect from July 27.

The location selected for the university comprises two adjacent lands one belonging to the Ministry of Industries comprising 23 acres and the other acquired from the Balangoda Plantation Ltd., comprising 37 acres.

In a media briefing last week the chairman of the University Grants Commission Prof. Ranjith Mendis pointed out that the objectives of this university are different from the others. He said that the UWU would set new trends in university education. The main focus of the UWU will be on courses and learning exercises aiming at creating new value to local resources.

There will be seven divisions in the University initially that includes Science and Technology offering BTech/BSc degrees where intakes of students could be from any stream, Management of Science offering BBM/BBA with intakes from any stream, Computer Science and Technology offering BTech/BSc with intake from any stream, Animal Science offering BSc with intake from Bio Science stream and Export Agriculture degree with intake from Bio Science stream.

Another area where UWU would differ from other universities is that barriers of departments and faculties of the traditional universities would be cut through to facilitate education in cross cutting themes.

Course committees centred on course directors with the membership of subject coordinators would be established.

The University would have the minimum number of Faculties and Departments statutorily needed to get credence from the University Act.

With the anticipation that some 1060 students would be populated at the university by year 2012, the emergence of UWU certainly bodes well for the elevation of education standards in Uva.

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