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Thirty Sinhala students enter Jaffna campus

by A. H. M. Farook

The first batch of Sinhala students to enter the Jaffna campus after 20 years are currently attending lectures there, an official attached to Jaffna University said yesterday. These undergraduates have mainly entered the Medical Faculty. The Agriculture Faculty has attracted three students.

All of them have been selected from the batch of students who sat for GCE (Advanced Level) examinations held in 2001 and 2002. Lectures commenced on January 6 for the academic year 2003. Out of 24 medical students and 6 agriculture students 23 and 2 Sinhala students have been registered respectively for these faculties from 2001 Advanced Level batch while 2 medical students from the 2002 batch have also been registered.

Muslim students have also entered the Jaffna campus this year. From the year 2002 batch, 21 of them have been registered as medical students while Arts Faculty has registered 6 students out of the total 8 from that community.

From the year 2002 batch one Sinhala student has registered himself for Agriculture Faculty while 4 selected from 2001 batch for the same faculty have failed to do so uptodate. These Sinhala students find common accommodation in the hostel and the prevailing peaceful atmosphere in Jaffna has greatly contributed to this healthy trend, the official attached to Jaffna campus added. Meanwhile it is learnt that some Muslim and Sinhala students selected for Jaffna campus have sought transfers to other campuses in the South and East.

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