Jaffna University

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The establishment of a full fledged University in Jaffna had been a long standing aspiration of the people of Jaffna. This was fulfilled when a campus of the University of Sri Lanka was established in 1974 by an order made by the Honourable Minister of Education. The campus became an independent and autonomous University bearing the name University of Jaffna on January 01, 1979.

The academic and administrative activities of the university are governed by the Universities Act. No. 16 of 1978., as last amended by Act No 1 of 1995.

From a small beginning in the thirty ac re campus of the then Parameswara College premises founded by the veteran philanthropist, Sir Ponnampalam Ramanathan, the University has grown enormously and is today the home of eight faculties with fifty seven academic departments, several service/academic/support units and centers and a Campus at Vavuniya, about 130 Km from Jaffna. In addition a few more Faculties, Departments and Centres are scheduled for development and will, in time, further open the University’s door to the public and increase its role, responsibilities and commitments to t he region around it.

The student population of the university is about seven thousand. This includes about six thousand two hundred internal students in the main campus, about five hundred postgraduate students and about three hundred and fifty of the Vavuniya campus. Although some students are housed in a few halls of residence, majority of the students find their own non-University accommodation.


History

Establishment of the the University of Jaffna

  1. With the implementation of the Universities Act No. 16 of 1978, and by Gazette notification dated December 22, 1978, the Jaffna Campus became an independent and autonomous University with the name University of Jaffna with effect from January 01, 1979.
  2. Following the ethnic disturbances in 1983, the Siddha section of the Institute of Indigenous Medicine, affiliated to the University of Colombo was transferred to the University of Jaffna on 02 July 1984 and placed as a department under the Faculty of Arts. Since 01 October 1993, the Department of Siddha Medicine has been functioning as a separate unit under the direct administration of the Vice-Chancellor. From September 2003, a management committee appointed by the University council oversee the administration of the Department of Siddha Medicine.
  3. A Computer Unit was established in 1985 as a Service Unit under the overall supervision of the Dean of the Faculty of Science.
  4. Construction of the Main Library building and the Student Centre commenced in early eighties. However the construction works were completely halted as a result of military activities and the economic embargo imposed by the government on 01 January 1987. Only a portion of the ground floor of the Library Block was completed and put into use in 1986.
  5. The activities of both the General Administration and Academic Departments in the University we

Om Jaffna-distriktet

Jaffna er hovedstaden i den nordlige provins i Sri Lanka. 85% af befolkningen i distrikterne Jaffna og Kilinochchi er hinduer. Hinduerne følger den saivitiske tradition. Resten er overvejende romersk-katolikker eller protestanter, hvoraf nogle er efterkommere af koloniale bosættere, kendt som burgere. Tamilerne er opdelt langs kastelinjer, hvor landmandskasten Vellalar udgør flertallet. Fisk og skaldyr, rødløg og tobak er de vigtigste produkter i Jaffna.

Jaffna er hjemsted for smukke hindutempler. Et gammelt hollandsk fort står stadig velbevaret, indeni er en gammel kirke. Et andet eksempel på hollandsk arkitektur er Kongens Hus. Intet besøg i Jaffna er fuldendt uden at smage den udsøgte Jaffna-mango, der er kendt for sin sødme. Omkring 3 km væk ligger det majestætiske Nallur Kandaswamy-tempel, hjemsted for den største religiøse festival i Jaffna. Kayts Havn er et gammelt skibsdokningssted i Jaffna-regionen.

Om Nordprovinsen

Den Nordlige Provins er en af ​​Sri Lankas 9 provinser. Provinserne har eksisteret siden det 19. århundrede, men de havde ingen juridisk status før 1987, da den 13. ændring af Sri Lankas forfatning fra 1978 oprettede provinsråd. Mellem 1988 og 2006 blev provinsen midlertidigt fusioneret med den Østlige Provins for at danne den Nordøstlige Provins. Provinsens hovedstad er Jaffna.

Nordprovinsen ligger i det nordlige Sri Lanka og kun 35 km fra Indien. Provinsen er omgivet af Mannar-bugten og Palk-bugten mod vest, Palk-strædet mod nord, Bengalbugten mod øst og de østlige, nordlige centrale og nordvestlige provinser mod syd. Provinsen har en række laguner, hvoraf de største er Jaffna-lagunen, Nanthi Kadal, Chundikkulam-lagunen, Vadamarachchi-lagunen, Uppu Aru-lagunen, Kokkilai-lagunen, Nai Aru-lagunen og Chalai-lagunen. De fleste øer omkring Sri Lanka findes vest for Nordprovinsen. De største øer er: Kayts, Neduntivu, Karaitivu, Pungudutivu og Mandativu.

Den nordlige provins havde 1.311.776 indbyggere i 2007. Størstedelen af ​​befolkningen er srilankanske tamiler, med et mindretal af srilankanske maurere og singalesere. Srilankansk tamil er det primære sprog, der tales i provinsen af ​​langt størstedelen af ​​befolkningen. Det andet sprog, der tales, er singalesisk af 1 procent af befolkningen. Engelsk tales og forstås bredt i byerne.

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