ලංකාපුවත්, ශ්‍රී ලංකා ජාතික ප්‍රවෘත්ති නියෝජිත ආයතනය.

(Colombo Lankapuvath February 08) Steps have been taken by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to increase the percentage of Sinhala and Muslim students to the University of Jaffna.

Earlier the intake of students for the North and East universities were minimized due to the conflict that prevailed in the areas.

However the overall intake of students will not increase but priority will be given to Sinhala and Muslim students this year.
According to the Chairman of the UGC Prof Gamini Samaranayake, the intake of students to universities will depend on the number of applications, vacancies and disciplines preferred by the applicants. He also said that the UGC expects about 1900 vacancies at the University of Jaffna.

The applications for University entrance are available at bookshops and the application should be handed over on or before the 26th of February 2010 and the cut off mark issue will be discussed afterwards. The Chairman said that the release of cutoff marks will take some time as it is a very long and tedious procedure.

The UGC expects to intake only about 21000 students to all universities and the figures may change according to the number of applications, vacancies and student preferences said the Chairman,