Buddhist monk students of Sri Lanka also to receive leadership training

[Wed, Jan 4, 2012, 09:28 am, SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka]

Jan 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka Ministry of Higher Education has taken steps to provide the military led leadership training to all new entrants to the universities including the monk students this year, Director General of Student Affairs of the Ministry Keerthi Mawellage said.

Accordingly, the student monks that are to be entered to two Buddhist monks' universities are also to be provided with the leadership training.

The two universities, Homagama Pali and Buddhist University and the Buddhasravaka Dharma Faculty of Anuradhapura will take 500 student monks this year.

The Minister of Higher Education S.B. Dissanayaka has already held two rounds of discussions in this regard with the chief monks of these universities and another discussion is due on January 16, say the Ministry sources.

The Ministry has also taken measures to provide the leadership training also to the late admitting students of the universities this year. Ministry sources say that around 4,000 such students missed the leadership training last year.