He was responding to a question raised by Chief Opposition Whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake, under Standing Order 23 (2) with reagard to around 300 students from the Engineering Faculty of the South Eastern University faced many difficulties due to lack of physical and human resources.
Minister Kiriella said he was aware of the problem which resulted due an experiment conducted by the former Government without a proper feasibility study as a quick remedy for the Z-Score issue of the A-L exam in 2011. Owing to this injustice has been caused to the students as they do not have sufficient lecturers, library and other facilities to study.
.Ministerr Kiriella said that it was decided to send a team led by the Higher Education State Minister to make an inspection tour and come up with recommendations to solve the existing problems, after having discussions with a group of students of the faculty..