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Message from the Vice Chancellor
Snr. Prof. Sujeewa Amarasena BSc Nursing Degree Programme of University
of Ruhuna with Sri Lanka Nurses Council
It gives me a great pleasure as the Vice (SLNC).
Chancellor to send this message to the In 2017, the AHSDP was converted to the
inaugural newsletter of the Faculty of Allied Faculty of Allied Health Sciences with three
Health Sciences. departments. It is slowly establishing all the
The Faculty of Allied Health Sciences has arms required to function as a separate faculty.
come a long way from its humble beginning. It The Newsletter is the latest addition to this
started as Allied Health Science Degree armory. The news about the Faculty must be
Programme (AHSDP) within the Faculty of disseminated efficiently for visibility of the
Medicine in 2008. In the initial period, I was Faculty and its activities to attract the students.
able to guide its development as the Principal It should be on the web as well. These could
Coordinator. We started with Bachelor of not be done in the past as skilled human
Nursing and Medical Laboratory Science resource pool was inadequate. It is nice to see
degree programmes. Two years later, Bachelor these changes within a reasonably short period
of Pharmacy programme was commenced. of time. That is a huge achievement.
Running these programmes initially was I wish to see the timelines for the development
extremely difficult with inadequate space for of new degree programmes, student and staff
staff, students, laboratory work etc. These were activities appearing in this newsletter soon and
overcome with time but dispute over the three- releasing it at regular intervals.
or four-year degrees dragged the programmes
behind for several years. This ended with the I wish RuAHS newsletter all the success.
agreement on four-year degrees but also
created a very politicized student union inside
the AHSDP. The student union thereafter
disrupted or prevented all the forward-thinking
reforms introduced into their programmes.
Capping ceremony was one such event. The
Nursing Council specifically raised a quality
issue with the BSc Nursing degree programme
in relation to registration of the
March 2022 03
Message from the Vice Chancellor
Snr. Prof. Sujeewa Amarasena BSc Nursing Degree Programme of University
of Ruhuna with Sri Lanka Nurses Council
It gives me a great pleasure as the Vice (SLNC).
Chancellor to send this message to the In 2017, the AHSDP was converted to the
inaugural newsletter of the Faculty of Allied Faculty of Allied Health Sciences with three
Health Sciences. departments. It is slowly establishing all the
The Faculty of Allied Health Sciences has arms required to function as a separate faculty.
come a long way from its humble beginning. It The Newsletter is the latest addition to this
started as Allied Health Science Degree armory. The news about the Faculty must be
Programme (AHSDP) within the Faculty of disseminated efficiently for visibility of the
Medicine in 2008. In the initial period, I was Faculty and its activities to attract the students.
able to guide its development as the Principal It should be on the web as well. These could
Coordinator. We started with Bachelor of not be done in the past as skilled human
Nursing and Medical Laboratory Science resource pool was inadequate. It is nice to see
degree programmes. Two years later, Bachelor these changes within a reasonably short period
of Pharmacy programme was commenced. of time. That is a huge achievement.
Running these programmes initially was I wish to see the timelines for the development
extremely difficult with inadequate space for of new degree programmes, student and staff
staff, students, laboratory work etc. These were activities appearing in this newsletter soon and
overcome with time but dispute over the three- releasing it at regular intervals.
or four-year degrees dragged the programmes
behind for several years. This ended with the I wish RuAHS newsletter all the success.
agreement on four-year degrees but also
created a very politicized student union inside
the AHSDP. The student union thereafter
disrupted or prevented all the forward-thinking
reforms introduced into their programmes.
Capping ceremony was one such event. The
Nursing Council specifically raised a quality
issue with the BSc Nursing degree programme
in relation to registration of the
March 2022 03
