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class="nickname"><span title="Sinhala-language text"><span lang="si"><b>කැලණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය</b></span></span><br /><span title="Tamil-language text"><span lang="ta"><b>களனி பல்கலைக்கழகம்</b></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Kelaniya.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Kelaniya.png/220px-Kelaniya.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Kelaniya.png 1.5x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="291" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">University of Kelaniya <a href="/wiki/Crest_(heraldry)" title="Crest (heraldry)">Crest</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Motto</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pali_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Pali language">Pali</a>: <span lang="pi">පඤ්ඤාය පරිසුජ්ඣති</span> <br /> Pannaya Parisujjhati</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Motto in English</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Self-purification is by insight</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Public_university" title="Public university">Public</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Established</th><td class="infobox-data"><b>1875 </b><a href="/wiki/Vidyalankara_Pirivena" title="Vidyalankara Pirivena">Vidyalankara Pirivena</a><br /><b>1959</b> Vidyalankara University</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Higher_education_accreditation" title="Higher education accreditation">Accreditation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a 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(Sri Lanka)">University Grants Commission (Sri Lanka)</a>, <br /><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Commonwealth_Universities" title="Association of Commonwealth Universities">Association of Commonwealth Universities</a>, <br /><a href="/wiki/International_Association_of_Universities" title="International Association of Universities">International Association of Universities</a>, <br /><a href="/wiki/Global_Universities_Partnership_on_Environment_and_Sustainability" title="Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability">Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kln.ac.lk">www<wbr />.kln<wbr />.ac<wbr />.lk</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:University_of_Kelaniya_logo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo of the University of Kelaniya"><img alt="Logo of the University of Kelaniya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1f/University_of_Kelaniya_logo.png/260px-University_of_Kelaniya_logo.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1f/University_of_Kelaniya_logo.png/390px-University_of_Kelaniya_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/University_of_Kelaniya_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="393" data-file-height="119" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>University of Kelaniya</b> (<b>UoK</b>; <a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>: <span lang="si">කැලණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය</span>, <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>: <span lang="ta">களனி பல்கலைக்கழகம்</span>) is a <a href="/wiki/Public_university" title="Public university">public university</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>. Just outside the municipal limits of <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>, in the city of <a href="/wiki/Kelaniya" title="Kelaniya">Kelaniya</a>, the university has two major institutions and seven faculties. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/University_of_Kelaniya" title="Special:EditPage/University of Kelaniya">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2017</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The University of Kelaniya has its origin in the historic <a href="/wiki/Vidyalankara_Pirivena" title="Vidyalankara Pirivena">Vidyalankara Pirivena</a>, founded in 1875 by <a href="/wiki/Ratmalane_Sri_Dharmaloka_Thera" title="Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera">Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera</a> as a centre of learning for Buddhist monks. </p><p>With the establishment of modern universities in Sri Lanka in the 1940s and 1950s, the Vidyalankara Pirivena became the Vidyalankara University in 1959, later the Vidyalankara Campus of the University of Ceylon in 1972, and, ultimately, the University of Kelaniya in 1978. </p><p>The University of Kelaniya has pioneered a number of new developments in higher education. It was one of the first universities to begin teaching science in Sinhala and the first to restructure the traditional Arts Faculty into three faculties: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Commerce and Management. </p><p>It has several departments not generally found in the Sri Lankan University system and some Kelaniya innovations have been adopted subsequently by other universities. These include the Departments of Industrial Management and Microbiology in the Faculty of Science; Departments of Linguistics, Fine Arts, Modern Languages and Hindi in the Faculty of Humanities; and Mass Communication and Library and Information Sciences in the Faculty of Social Sciences. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Symbols">Symbols</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Symbols"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coat_of_arms">Coat of arms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Coat of arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The coat of arms of the University of Kelaniya is circular and consists of three concentric bands, the outermost of which contains the name of the university in Sinhala and English. The motto of the institution, "Pannaya Parisujjhati" ("Self-purification is by insight"), is a quotation from the Alavaka-sutta of the Samyutta Nikaya, given in Sinhala characters in the same band. The middle band containing a creeper design encloses the innermost, which shows a full-blown lotus, signifying purity. These two designs are reminiscent of those occurring in the well-known moonstones at Anuradhapura. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:University_of_Kelaniya.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/University_of_Kelaniya.jpg/220px-University_of_Kelaniya.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/University_of_Kelaniya.jpg/330px-University_of_Kelaniya.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/University_of_Kelaniya.jpg/440px-University_of_Kelaniya.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1076" data-file-height="989" /></a><figcaption>University of Kelaniya.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Faculties">Faculties</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Faculties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faculty_of_Science">Faculty of Science</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Faculty of Science"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Faculty of Science started functioning in October 1967 with <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dahanayake" title="Charles Dahanayake">Charles Dahanayake</a> as the dean of science. The intake of the first batch of students was 57. Formal approval for the faculty was given by the minister of education in 1968. </p><p>The science faculty was housed in the main building known as the "Science Block". Due to the continued increase in the student intake from year to year, a new lecture theatre complex and an auditorium were constructed in 1992, which enabled the intake of students to be increased to 450 in 2003. A new laboratory complex for the Chemistry Department and three buildings for the Departments for Industrial Management, Microbiology and Zoology have now been completed. </p><p>The science faculty was the first among the Sri Lankan universities to initiate the changeover from the traditional three subject (General) degree with end of year examinations to a more flexible course unit system, i.e., a modularized credit-based system in a two-semester academic year with the end of semester examinations. It offers a variety of course pathways designed to provide flexibility in the choice of subjects. Under this system students have the option of reading for a traditional three subject degree or for a degree consisting of two principal subjects and a selection of course units drawn from other subject areas. The BSc (Special) degree courses, begun in 1974, adopted the course unit system in 1986. </p><p>Currently, Prof. Sudath Kalingamudali is the dean of the faculty of Science. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Faculty_of_Science,_University_of_Kelaniya.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Faculty_of_Science%2C_University_of_Kelaniya.jpg/220px-Faculty_of_Science%2C_University_of_Kelaniya.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Faculty_of_Science%2C_University_of_Kelaniya.jpg/330px-Faculty_of_Science%2C_University_of_Kelaniya.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Faculty_of_Science%2C_University_of_Kelaniya.jpg/440px-Faculty_of_Science%2C_University_of_Kelaniya.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>Faculty of Science</figcaption></figure> <p>The faculty consists of eight departments. </p> <ul><li>Department of Botany</li> <li>Department of Chemistry</li> <li>Department of Industrial Management</li> <li>Department of Mathematics</li> <li>Department of Microbiology</li> <li>Department of Physics and Electronics</li> <li>Department of Statistics & Computer Science</li> <li>Department of Zoology & Environmental Management</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faculty_of_Medicine">Faculty of Medicine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Faculty of Medicine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Faculty_of_Medicine,_University_of_Kelaniya" title="Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya">Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya</a> is on a 35-acre (140,000 m<sup>2</sup>) campus at <a href="/wiki/Ragama" title="Ragama">Ragama</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is one of eight medical schools in Sri Lanka. The faculty began classes with the admission of 120 students in September 1991 after the government, in 1989, nationalised the <a href="/wiki/North_Colombo_Medical_College" title="North Colombo Medical College">North Colombo Medical College</a> (NCMC), the first privately funded medical school in Sri Lanka established in 1980. The first batch of students, of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya completed their five-year course and graduated MBBS in September 1996. Prof. Carlo Fonseka was the first dean of the faculty. Subsequent deans were Prof. Janaka de Silva, Prof. Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Prof. Nilanthi de Silva,Prof. Prasantha S. Wijesinghe and Prof. Janaki de S. Hewavisenthi. The current dean is Prof. Madawa N. Chandratilake. </p><p>The faculty now has over 1,000 medical students. This number includes international students, mainly from other South Asian countries, who have been admitted on a fee-levying basis. The faculty also welcomes students for elective appointments. Students from medical schools in Europe, USA and Australia have spent their elective periods with the university. In addition to the MBBS course, it conducts a BSc programme in speech and hearing sciences. </p><p>There is a permanent academic staff of over 120 and in addition 40 temporary academic staff and over 60 visiting staff that includes consultants who are based in the affiliated teaching hospitals. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faculty_of_Social_Science">Faculty of Social Science</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Faculty of Social Science"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Faculty of Social Sciences, in student population, is the largest faculty in the University of Kelaniya. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Department_of_Library_and_Information_Science">Department of Library and Information Science</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Department of Library and Information Science"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faculty_of_Humanities">Faculty of Humanities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Faculty of Humanities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The faculty includes disciplines associated with Buddhist and Asian cultures, such as Pali and Buddhist Studies, Sinhala, Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi, Japanese, Chinese and Korean ( One and only sri lankan University that has a 4 years of Korean Language Degree) while teaching courses in modern European languages such as English, French, German and Russian. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faculty_of_Commerce_and_Management">Faculty of Commerce and Management</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Faculty of Commerce and Management"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Department of Commerce was the first to be established and contribute graduates to the industry. BCOM degree is unique to the Department of Commerce. Department provides special degree in Financial Management(BCOM (special) Degree in Financial management), Business technology(BCOM (special) Degree in Business Technology), Entrepreneurship(BCOM (special) Degree in Entrepreneurship) and Commerce(BCOM (special) Degree in Commerce). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faculty_of_Computing_and_Technology">Faculty of Computing and Technology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Faculty of Computing and Technology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fctimage.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Fctimage.jpg/220px-Fctimage.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Fctimage.jpg/330px-Fctimage.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Fctimage.jpg/440px-Fctimage.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Faculty of Computing & Technology</figcaption></figure> <p>The University of Kelaniya established its 7th Faculty - the Faculty of Computing and Technology (FCT) on 30 December 2015 and the Faculty commenced its operations on 18 January 2016. </p><p>The Faculty will offer Postgraduate Programmes in the areas of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology and Engineering Technology. The Master of Information Technology in Education programme is currently being developed for the Ministry of Education to train ICT teachers in the national education system. </p><p>The faculty will conduct research in diverse fields of significant impact. The research enterprise at the Faculty of Computing and Technology will expand from fundamental Computer Science research to the development of new technologies with applications to the industry and society as a whole. The Faculty is planning to propose the following Research and Development Centres: </p> <ul><li>Centre for Nanotechnology</li> <li>Centre for eLearning</li> <li>Language Engineering Research Centre</li> <li>Centre for Geo-informatics</li> <li>Centre for Computational Mathematics</li> <li>Centre for Data Science</li> <li>Centre for Cyber Security and Digital Forensics</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faculty_of_Graduate_Studies">Faculty of Graduate Studies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Faculty of Graduate Studies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Twenty-three postgraduate degree programmes and six postgraduate diploma programmes are coordinated by the Faculty of Graduates Studies. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Libraries_and_ICT_services">Libraries and ICT services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Libraries and ICT services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="University_Library">University Library</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: University Library"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The University of Kelaniya Library,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has a history spanning over 60 years. In parallel to Vidyalankara Pirivena became Vidyalankara University in 1959, the library was started with a collection of books belonging to Vidyalankara Pirivena. Subsequently, it was shifted to the current premises in 1977. Later, as this old building was insufficient to accommodate its growing collection and student population, the newly built four-storied building was added to the library system in 2013. Presently, the library owns a collection of over 245,000 books and monographs relevant to various study programmes and research activities in the university. Furthermore, the library has subscribed to EBSCO HOST, JSTOR, Emerald, Oxford University Press, Taylor and Francis databases with access facilities for more than 20,000 academic e-journals and more than 100,000 e-books. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Information_and_Communication_Technology_Centre">Information and Communication Technology Centre</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Information and Communication Technology Centre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The ICT Centre provides support services in IT-related teaching, research, internet services, staff development and hardware maintenance for the entire university. It conducts a computer literacy course open to all students and advanced courses in Visual Basic, web designing and hardware technology for the students who have successfully completed the computer literacy course. On-the-job training in the IT arena is provided for the young people just out of the university who work in the ICT Centre. </p><p>The maintenance unit provides network, hardware and software support to the clients in the university, and IT for academic departments and administrative branches of the university. Video filming of special events of the university since 2005 is an additional service. </p><p>Currently, the ICT Centre hosts web and mail services for all students and staff. They have a university-wide <a href="/wiki/Wi-Fi" title="Wi-Fi">wifi</a> network called "Kelani-WiFi". The ICT Centre is the first institutional Sri Lankan member of <a href="/wiki/Eduroam" title="Eduroam">Eduroam</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historically_related_institutions">Historically related institutions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Historically related institutions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Vidyodaya_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Vidyodaya University">Vidyodaya University</a> was created at the same time as the Vidyalankara University. Today Vidyodaya University is known as the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Sri_Jayewardenepura" title="University of Sri Jayewardenepura">University of Sri Jayewardenepura</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Centre_for_Gender_Studies(CGS)"><span id="Centre_for_Gender_Studies.28CGS.29"></span>Centre for Gender Studies(CGS)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Centre for Gender Studies(CGS)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Centre for Gender studies was founded by Prof. <a href="/wiki/Maithree_Wickremesinghe" title="Maithree Wickremesinghe">Maithree Wickremesinghe</a> with the objective of initiating and conducting research on Gender issues and conducting educational programs on gender studies. Currently, Dr Sagarika Kannangara acts as the director of this centre. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Faculty_staff">Faculty staff</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Faculty staff"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vice_chancellors">Vice chancellors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=University_of_Kelaniya&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Vice chancellors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Thilak Rathnakara (1978–1982)</li> <li>S. L. Kekulawala</li> <li>M. P. Perera (1983–1985)</li> <li>I. Balasooriya (1985–1987)</li> <li>M. M. J. Marasinghe</li> <li>K. Dharmasena</li> <li>H. H. Costa (1994–1997)</li> <li>Senaka Bandaranaike (1997–1999)</li> <li>Thilakaratne Kapugamage (1999–2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._J._S._Wijeyaratne" title="M. J. S. Wijeyaratne">M. J. S. 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