{"id":6600,"date":"2022-12-10T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T13:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=6600"},"modified":"2022-12-10T19:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T13:32:17","slug":"president-participates-in-colombo-law-faculty-75th-diamond-jubilee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=6600","title":{"rendered":"President participates in Colombo Law Faculty 75th Diamond Jubilee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/smn-news-3027.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6603\" width=\"840\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/smn-news-3027.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/smn-news-3027-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government would assist the Colombo University to improve its quality. The President made this observation during a discussion at the Dean\u2019s Office of the Law Faculty having taken part in the Back to the Faculty-Faculty of Law, at the University of Colombo, which was organized to mark its 75th Diamond Jubilee today (10). The President participated in the event as the first alumnus of the Colombo Law Faculty who became the Executive President of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The casual discussion held with the participation of the Vice Chancellor of the University Prof. H. D. Karunaratne, Dean of the Faculty of Law Prof. Sampath Punchihewa, Parliamentarians Professor G. L. Peiris and Madura Withanage, President\u2019s Counsel Ronald Perera and several others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President, during the discussion, instructed the university authorities to prepare a program to establish the postgraduate institute and to recruit permanent staff to it to enhance the quality of university education. He said that the focus should be drawn to bringing the university among the best universities in the world rather than developing more and more of its infrastructure facilities. This is how the university could attract foreign students into the country, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government would assist the Colombo University to improve its quality. The President made this observation during a discussion at the Dean\u2019s Office of the Law Faculty having taken part in the Back to the Faculty-Faculty of Law, at the University of Colombo, which was organized to mark its 75th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1301,1300,394,18],"class_list":["post-6600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-75th-diamond-jubilee","tag-colombo-law-faculty","tag-president-of-sri-lanka","tag-smn24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6604,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6600\/revisions\/6604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}