Students’ knowledge to meet demands

Hemanthi Guruge

Students from Higher Educational Institutes will be moulded to meet the demand of the country and the world, Higher Education Minister S B Dissanayake said .

He was addressing a meeting at the Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education at Mattakkuliya yesterday.

Many students from Universities and other Higher Educational Institutes don’t have proper English and IT Knowledge.

Therefore, it is a responsibility of the Higher Education Ministry and the University administration to enhance English and IT knowledge among those students.

The Minister said there is a great demand for qualified nurses, hotel industry employees, engineers etc. Arts stream students will be given an opportunity to follow other course such as Nursing, he said.