Under the pretext of jointly fighting the repressive policies of the Wickremesinghe government and its attacks on social and democratic rights, the Inter-University Student Federation (IUSF) ...

National strike action by over 17,000 non-academic employees, assistant workers and administrative officers from 15 Sri Lankan state universities and 23 affiliated higher educational institutions ...

Academics and human-rights groups have appealed for the release of the vice chancellor of Eastern University of Sri Lanka, who has been missing for more than a month. Sivasubramaniam Raveendranath, 55 ...

Sri Lanka’s military shut down the University of Jaffna, on the country’s northern peninsula, this month and ordered more than 4,000 students to stay home until further notice. The closure came amid ...

Twenty-five students from Sri Lanka have arrived in Pakistan to begin their MBBS degrees under the Allama Iqbal Scholarships for Sri Lankan Students. Authorities welcomed them at Jinnah International ...

State hospitals in Sri Lanka were paralyzed Friday as doctors went on strike to demand that a private medical university be shut down, saying it could jeopardize health care standards in the island ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Thousands of students from state-run universities finished a five-day march across Sri Lanka on Friday, demanding the government shut a private medical university that they ...

A Sri Lankan university student throws back a tear gas canister fired by police to disperse them during protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Police in Sri Lanka have fired tear gas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Sri Lankan grandma has just earned her master's degree from a Canadian university at the age of 87. Just a number: Varatha ...