The Higher Education Minister of Sri Lanka has said that private universities to be established in the country will offer free education to students from lower income families.
“Government has a secret plan; they wanted Prince Charles to lay the foundation for a private university and privatise free education. That is why they close all universities during this period,” an IUSF spokesperson, Haritha Lakmal, told University World News.
Private institutions of higher education are concerned about the reform bill on higher education recently unveiled by the government, fearing that provisions on financing and staffing standards would effectively disable them.