පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙහි ඉතිහාසය හා කලාත්මක අගය / University of Peradeniya

Arts Faculty Alumni Association of the University of Peradeniya (AFAAUP) - arts.pdn.ac.lk...
Prof. H. M. D. R. Herath
BA (Peradeniya), MA (Peradeniya), Ph.D. (Peradeniya)
Urban Studies, Society Environment and Culture, Development Studies
The history of the establishment of University of Ceylon dates much beyond 1942. Although European-style university education had an early start in India with the establishment of three universities in 1857, the colonial administration in Ceylon was in no hurry to confer the same benefits on the Ceylonese people. By the end of the nineteenth century there was a well-developed secondary school system in the island, but only a few who had the means were able to go abroad, to Great Britain or India, to pursue university education.
The first formal step in tertiary education was taken in the field of medical education with the establishment of the Ceylon Medical College in 1870. The initial plans of the Medical College were modest. It was to be an “elementary school” for medical assistants. However, the Ceylon Medical College expanded rapidly and was sufficiently well developed by 1888 for its Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery (LMS) to be recognized by the General Medical Council of Great Britain. Thus, it became a medical school for fully-qualified medical practitioners.
In 1874, a Council of Legal Education (later Law College) was formed to produce lawyers. In another development, a Technical College was established in Colombo in 1893 to train sub-professional engineering personnel. Due to the lack of a clear government policy on technical education, this college languished for many years without development. Moreover, a proposal for a University of Ceylon was developed as far back as 1884 though little progress was made on this proposal until the end of the 19th century.

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Many thanks for the historical illustrations of the Pera University

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