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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
- 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.
- 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.
- A Computer Unit was established in 1985 as a Service Unit under the overall supervision of the Dean of the Faculty of Science.
- 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.
- The activities of both the General Administration and Academic Departments in the University we
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约 25 公里范围内的 13 个地点，由近及远。
- City Tours From Jaffna不到 1 公里
- 贾夫纳 市区不到 1 公里
- 贾夫纳区不到 1 公里
- Jaffna Port不到 1 公里
- Jaffna 火车站不到 1 公里
- Maninthalei Shivam Kovil不到 1 公里
- North Coast不到 1 公里
- 北部省不到 1 公里
- Sri Lanka northern coastline不到 1 公里
- Sri Lanka Tamils不到 1 公里
- Sri Nagavihara International Buddhist Centre不到 1 公里
- Tissa Rajamaha Viharaya, Jaffna不到 1 公里
- Rio Ice Cream Jaffna不到 1 公里
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