A preliminary discussion was held in Parliament recently on the future plan of getting the support of university academic staff through Vice Chancellors to formulate national policies.
This was decided on at the National Council sub-committee meeting on identifying short and medium-term programs related to National Policy chaired by MP Namal Rajapaksa recently.
The meeting which was held in the presence of the Chairman of the University Grants Commission Prof. Sampath Amaratunge and a group of lecturers including Vice Chancellors of universities across the country arrived at a preliminary agreement regarding the basic structure identified by the sub-committee on identifying short and medium-term programs related to National Policy.
As a preamble to this program, Prof. Krishan Deheragoda outlined the main areas where policy preparations should focus on. The university Vice Chancellors and lecturers expressed their views on how policies should be prepared.
It was decided to prepare a basic structure identified by the sub-committee on identifying programs related to National Policy together with university professors in accordance with each identified field given the priority and to move ahead.
Chairman of the Sub-committee MP Rajapaksa said that they hope to propose to the National Council to set up a separate bureau for policy formulation in Sri Lanka and to implement the legal changes through Parliament.