{"id":88268,"date":"2019-05-06T13:54:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88268"},"modified":"2019-05-06T13:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:54:19","slug":"no-sharia-university-under-ugc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/06\/no-sharia-university-under-ugc\/","title":{"rendered":"No \u2018Sharia University\u2019 under UGC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The University Grants Commission (UGC) issuing a press release states that there is no university named \u2018Sharia University\u2019 under the jurisdiction of the UGC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UGC says that no such university has requested permission nor given authority by the UGC to conduct educational courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The complete media release of the UGC:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attention of the University Grants Commission is drawn to several news items regarding an organization referred to as \u2018Sharia University\u2019 or \u2018Batticaloa Campus\u2019 located in Poonani in the Eastern province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commission wishes to state that, as per the University Act 1978 (as amended) University Grants Commission is mandated only to plan and coordinate university education and regulate the administration of 15 state universities that come under the purview of the University Grants Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University Grants Commission categorically states that no organization by the name of \u2018Sharia University\u2019 or \u2018Batticaloa Campus\u2019 has ever requested permission, nor given authority by the Commission to conduct degree courses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/BbXJsRsS\/UGC-statement.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The University Grants Commission (UGC) issuing a press release states that there is no university named \u2018Sharia University\u2019 under the jurisdiction of the UGC. The UGC says that no such university has requested permission nor given authority by the UGC to conduct educational courses. The complete media release of the UGC: Attention of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88268","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=88268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}