Sri Lanka, Jan. 14 -- Higher Education Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardane has said that the government would monitor and regularise the private institutions that send Sri Lankan students to foreign universities. He had said this on Sunday after visiting the home of one of the three female students who had died in Azerbaijan due to suffocation while pursuing higher studies at a university in that country.
Although it is not clear whether the Minister's statement had anything to do with the deaths of the students in Azerbaijan, needless to say that monitoring and regularising these mushrooming institutions that play the middleman's role between the Sri Lankan students and the foreign universities is a long felt need. One can find an amazing n...