{"id":87967,"date":"2019-04-30T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T22:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87967"},"modified":"2019-04-30T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T22:11:22","slug":"batticaloa-campus-should-be-brought-under-the-govt-nuta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/30\/batticaloa-campus-should-be-brought-under-the-govt-nuta\/","title":{"rendered":"Batticaloa Campus should be brought under the govt. &#8211; NUTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Batticaloa Campus Sri Lanka (BCSL) in Punanai should be brought under the authority of the government, says the National University Teachers\u2019 Associations (NUTA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Secretary of NUTA Professor Channa Jayasumana stated this speaking at a press conference yesterday (30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Govt should take over Sharia University in Batticaloa - Prof Channa Jayasumana (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BeBzqNhf9F4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Batticaloa Campus was not initially registered as a university but a vocational training centre when it was constructed in 2013, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it is said the BCSL is funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, the campus had so far been funded by one individual residing there, Prof Jayasumana said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are attempts to establish a faculty of medicine and a faculty that teaches only Sharia law, the Secretary of NUTA further commented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Batticaloa Campus Sri Lanka (BCSL) in Punanai should be brought under the authority of the government, says the National University Teachers\u2019 Associations (NUTA). The Secretary of NUTA Professor Channa Jayasumana stated this speaking at a press conference yesterday (30). Batticaloa Campus was not initially registered as a university but a vocational training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}