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06 The Open ESTABLISHMENT

University Education in Sri Lanka has a long history which
dates to several millennia. As a country, Sri
Lanka considers education as a wealth and the
of Sri Lanka: state has taken the responsibility of providing
High-Quality education to its citizens from the primary
level to the tertiary level, including vocational
Education for education. The Constitution of Sri Lanka, in
its section on directive principles of state
All Through policy at 27(2)(H), includes ‘the complete

Inclusivity and eradication of illiteracy and the assurance to
all persons of the right to universal and equal
Affordability access to education at all levels’.

Even though there have been a few private
local schools teaching the Sri Lankan
curriculum and private international
schools mainly teaching the Cambridge and
S. A. Ariadurai Edexcel curriculum of the United Kingdom,
higher education has been until recently
The Open University of monopolized by several conventional
Sri Lanka state universities; and the only distance

education institution, the Open University of
Sri Lanka (OUSL). However, in recent years,
the Government of Sri Lanka has allowed