SAITM TOLD TO AWAIT MINISTRY DECISION

Student intake The May intake has been completed. The next is in Sept.

The Higher Education Ministry has written to SAITM instructing it to await the ministry’s decision with regard to its student intake, SAITM Registrar Husni Hussain said yesterday.

“SAITM has two student intakes annually. As of now, we have completed our student intake for May. The next student intake is in September,” she said adding that SAITM had not received any directive from President Maithripala Sirisena was functioning on directives received from the Higher Education Ministry.

However, the presidential secretariat had recently announced that the government had directed SAITM to stop student admissions and the awarding of degrees until the government gazetted the medical education standards to be adhered to by private medical colleges.

SAITM has two student intakes annually. As of now, we have completed our student intake for May. The next student intake is in September