SRI LANKA: Ten new foreign universities on the cards

Sri Lanka is on track to attract about 10 foreign universities under an initiative to expand tertiary education, with the Bangkok-based Asian Institute of Technology among them, reports Lanka Business Online.

The AIT is expected to set up a campus in Hambantota in southern Sri Lanka, Higher Education Ministry Secretary Sunil Jayantha Navaratne said. India's Manipal University is to set up a campus near Negombo, north of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo.

The government is offering land and tax breaks for recognised international higher education institutions to set up shop in Sri Lanka and break a state monopoly in degree-awarding. Navaratne said the government was in advanced talks with about 10 institutes and relevant legislation was in the final stages of being drafted.
Full report on the Lanka Business Online site