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The UGC is to initiate and gradually increase designing and implementing a mass and social media campaign to promote the intake of foreign students.The plan seeks to increase foreign student intake by eight percent by 2023.

The usage of emails as the primary official mode of internal communications at the UGC is to be increased from 25 percent to 100 percent in 2020.

Establishing an effective university-industry partnership through University Business

Linkage Cells, empowering academia and students to promote research and innovation in the areas of global and national interest are also part of the strategic plan. The number of active University Business Linkage Cells established in the state university system is to be increased from three in 2020 to 15 by 2023.

The plan also aims at establishing University Test of English Language (UTEL) Cells and a coordinating centre at the Colombo University.

- Nadia Fazlulhaq