UGC Chairman Senior Professor Sampath Amaratunga

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The Vice-Chancellor of the Sri Jayewardenepura University, Senior Professor Sampath Amaratunga has been appointed as the Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC).

The appointment has been made by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat this evening.

Professor Amaratunga is the senior most vice chancellor in the university system of Sri Lanka and was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the Sri Jayewardenepura University in 2014. (Ajantha Kumara Agalakada)

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One people Thursday, 02 January 2020 06:36 PM

Good at least some educated people are getting in. But when you say this is one country with one people,why the Tamils

K.L Pathirana Thursday, 02 January 2020 06:46 PM

Another clown with a shady record. We all know what he did when he was the VC at J'Pura University.

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UGC Chairman Senior Professor Sampath Amaratunga

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