Sri Lanka - Higher Education for the Twenty First Century Project

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The development objective of the Higher Education for the Twenty First Century Project for Sri Lanka is to enhance the capacity of the higher education system, institutions, and human resources to deliver quality higher education services in line with equitable social and economic development needs. There are four components to the project. The first component of the project is institutionalizing norms for the higher education sector. This component will develop the institutional foundation of the higher education sector in Sri Lanka through the establishment of a Sri Lanka qualification framework covering the higher education and training sectors, and the development of a quality assurance system to cover the entire higher education sector. The second component of the project is promoting relevance and quality of teaching and learning. This component will provide university development grants to improve the social and economic relevance of university education and quality and innovation grants to improve the performance of strategically selected study programs. The third component of the project is strengthening alternative higher education. This component will modernize the Sri Lanka Institute for Advanced Technological Education (SLIATE) and its network of Advanced Technological Institutes (ATIs) through curriculum and management reforms, and expand the coverage of the ATIs to under-served areas to provide more equitable access to alternative higher education. The fourth component of the project is human resource development, monitoring, evaluation, studies, coordination and communication. This component will strengthen the human resources and organizational capacity of the higher education sector, including the qualifications of academic staff of higher education institutions, and also support monitoring and evaluation, policy analyses and dissemination.