Peradeniya University preview for 1,500 CP A/L candidates

1,500 Science stream Students of the Central Province schools, aspiring to enter Universities, were given a firsthand experience into University Education by the University of the Peradeniya (UoP).

UoP Vice Chancellor ( VC) Prof Upul B. Dissanayake addressing the students in the Science Faculty auditorium, said that, for the next 3 days, they would visit the various Departments of Science, where they could access the work done in the Science Faculty and as a whole in the curriculum of University Education. He said that, though the University has not reached the top rungs of International rankings, yet it is within the top few and aspiring to reach the top.

Prof Dissanayake said that, when the 1st UoP VC Sir Ivor Jennings became the Chancellor of Cambridge University, and candidates interviewed for Research awards, those from the UoP were not interviewed. There was an uproar and many wanted to know why it was so. Prof Dissnayake said Sir Jennings had told them he knows the quality of the graduates coming from UoP. That is the University, he said, that they are sitting for this "Open Day" in Science.

Prof Dissanayake said he would be happy and proud if all the students present here would choose UoP for their Higher Education.

The students, along with their tutors, visited the Departments of Biology, C h e m i s t r y, Geology Mathemat i c s, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science and Zoology.

The Dean of the Faculty of Science Prof Saluka Kodituwakku, Pro f K. Samarasinghe, Prof Sanath Rajapakse and Dr Nanda Nalasooriya also addressed the opening sessions.