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University Grants Commission; Abbreviation: UGC: Formation: 22 December 1979 (): Purpose: planning and co-ordination of university education, allocation of funds to Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs), maintenance of academic standards, regulation of the administration of HEIs and regulation of admission of students to HEIs.
The Tamil language is spoken by native Sri Lankan Tamils and is also spoken by Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka and by most Sri Lankan Moors. Tamil speakers number around 4.8 million (29% of the population), making it the second largest language in Sri Lanka. There are more than 40,000 speakers of the Sri Lankan Malay language.
Official Language Act or Official Languages Act may refer to: one of several acts passed in Sri Lanka, including the Official Language Act No. 33 of 1956 (Ceylon) , commonly known as the Sinhala Only Act, which replaced English with Sinhala as the official language of the country,
Pages in category "Languages of Sri Lanka" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... This page was last edited on 8 March 2024, ...
Sri Lankan Tamil academic Ratnajeevan Hoole recounted the following in a letter to The Washington Times: [8] "I took the common Advanced Level exam in 1969 and was admitted to the engineering faculty. The government then redid the admissions after adding some 28 marks to the four-subject aggregate of Sinhalese students. I lost my seat.
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) is a public research university located in Lagos, Nigeria, which was founded in 1962. UNILAG is one of the first generation universities in Nigeria and is ranked among the top universities in Africa [ 2 ] in major education publications.
English as a medium of education in schools were dropped, and the Act also prompted the emigration of the predominantly English-speaking Burgher community of Sri Lanka. That resulted in the Sinhala language gaining more prominence in all domains of Sri Lanka, but its influence on Sri Lankan English also increased. In fact, the merging of the ...
The University of Ceylon was the only university in Sri Lanka (earlier Ceylon) from 1942 until 1972. It had several constituent campuses at various locations around Sri Lanka. The University of Ceylon Act No. 1 of 1972, replaced it with the University of Sri Lanka which existed from 1973 to 1978.