UNIVERSITY OF KELANIYA.....
With the establishment of modern universities in Sri Lanka in the 1940s and 1950s, the Vidyalankara Pirivena became the Vidyalankara University in 1959, later the Vidyalankara Campus of the University of Ceylon in 1972, and, ultimately, the University of Kelaniya in 1978.
The University of Kelaniya has pioneered a number of new developments in higher education. It was one of the first universities to begin teaching science in Sinhala and the first to restructure the traditional Arts Faculty into three faculties: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Commerce and Management.
It has several departments not generally found in the Sri Lankan University system and some Kelaniya innovations have been adopted subsequently by other universities. These include the Departments of Industrial Management and Microbiology in the Faculty of Science; Departments of Linguistics, Fine Arts, Modern Languages and Hindi in the Faculty of Humanities; and Mass Communication and Library and Information Sciences in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
"To become centre of excellence in creation and dissemination of knowledge for sustainable development"
Vision of the University of Kelaniya
"To nurture intellectual citizens through creativity and innovation,who contribute to the national development"
Mission of the University of Kelaniya
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
The Faculty of Science started functioning in October 1967 with Prof. Charles Dahanayake as the Dean of Science. The intake of the first batch of students was 57. Formal approval for the Faculty was given by the Minister of Education in 1968.The faculty was housed in the main building known as the “Science Block”. Due to the continued increase in the student intake from year to year, a new lecture theatre complex and an auditorium were constructed in 1992, which enabled the intake of students to be increased to 450 in 2003. A new laboratory complex for the Chemistry and three buildings for the Departments for Industrial Management, Microbiology and Zoology have now been completed.
The faculty was the first among the Sri Lankan universities to initiate the changeover from the traditional three subject (General) degree with end of year examinations to a more flexible course unit system, i.e., a modularized credit-based system in a two-semester academic year with the end of semester examinations. It offers a variety of course pathways designed to provide flexibility in the choice of subjects. Under this system students have the option of reading for a traditional three subject degree or for a degree consisting of two principal subjects and a selection of course units drawn from other subject areas. The B.Sc. (Special) degree courses, begun in 1974, adopted the course unit system in 1986.
The faculty consists of eight departments.
- Department of Botany
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Industrial Management
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Microbiology
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics & Computer Science
- Department of Zoology & Environmental Management.
CANTEENS.
There are about five canteens available in the university. These canteens provide tasty as well as healthy food for the students and staffs. Some of the canteens are
- Base canteen : located inside the science faculty.
- Gym canteen: the common canteen for all faculty students.
- Staff canteen: the canteen is only available for the staffs.
- Hunduwa canteen.
- Hilton canteen.
LIBRARY.
Library is the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.To enhance our knowedge ,there is a main library in our university with various collection of books of various fields.
MEDICAL CENTER
The University of Kelaniya also cares a lot about the physical health of students.So to maintain and check the physical healthiness of the students ,we have a Medical center .Students can go to the medical center in case of an illness and get medicines.
HOSTELS.
For the University of Kelaniya,the students from all part of the country are enrolled each year.Not all can come from home every day and afford to the private boarding rooms-these students are selected for the hostel.There are about ten hostels in the university.Some of them are
- Pangyarama hostel.
- pangyasara hostel.
- Sangamitta hostel.
- Viharamahadevi hostel.
- Kannangara hostel.
