New Recommendations to Resolve SAITM Issue

The committee of the Higher Education Chaired by Professor Ashu Marasinghe submitted its report to the Parliament today.

Recommendations in a nutshell:

1. Maintaining the standard by involving a monitoring institution.

2. Final Examination should be in accordance with the direction and guidelines given by the University Grants Commission based on MBBS examination.

3. SAITM should provide education free of charge to 20% of the students in the Medical Faculty.

Along with this several other recommendations were made:

JVP MP Anura kumara Dissnayake requested for a debate on this matter.