Centre for Distance & Continuing Education
About the Institute
Rajarata University of Sri Lanka is located at Mihintale about 20 km to the East of Anuradhapura, ancient Capital City of Sri Lanka. The University has Six Faculties, namely the Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Management Studies, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and Faculty of Technology. Faculty of Agriculture is located at Puliyankulama, and Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences is located at Saliyapura while the other facilities, units and centers are on the main campus, Mihintale. The University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Ministry of Higher Education have prepared certain guidelines in order to provide learning opportunities to a wider spectrum of students through external programs, with the intention of producing skilled, knowledgeable and employable Graduates, Diplomats and Certificate holders. Universities were requested to establish a separate administrative structure to handle activities of external academic programs effectively and efficiently, this reducing the workload normally handled by the academic departments and faculties. Different faculties of this university offer a number of external degree programs and extension courses at certificate and diploma levels. The Centre for Distance and Continuing Education (CDCE) of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka is an independent administrative body established on 24 th October 2011 to handle activities of the external academic programs. The Centre for Distance and Continuing Education is presently located in the Main Administrative building of the main Campus in Mihintale.
Vision
“To be an internationallyrecognized centreof exellencein Distance and continuing Education”
Mission
“ To contribute to the development of a knowledge based society through providing access to higher education programmes with high demand to scholars of all the age groups and catering the needs of adult learners who seek higher education for career advancement in an intellectually stimulating academic environment.”
Director’s Massage
Prof.W. P. Wijewardena
Director
Center for Distance and Continuing Education (CDCE)
It is indeed a great pleasure and privilege to give this message to you as the Director of Centre for Distance and Continuing Education (CDCE) of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. Higher education is considered to be the engine of the development in the present knowledge based society. Hence more and more people aspire to gain higher education. The primary responsibility of the Universities today is to produce high quality knowledge product that can directly and indirectly transform the society into a better place for all of us. The Rajarata University of Sri Lanka is committed to its efforts in providing open and distance learning to the students who meet the basic entry requirements to enter the state universities but fail to gain admission mainly owing to lack of physical and human resources available in state universities. Moreover, the CDCE of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka is also conducting a number of Certificate and Diploma programs providing opportunities to those who wish to develop competent skills and gain career oriented qualifications. CDCE of Rajarata University of Sri Lanka is an independent administrative body established mainly to operationalize and coordinate the activities pertaining to the external degree programs and extension courses. It is important to note that guidelines provided by the University Grants Commission on quality assurance of external programs are adhered to in all its programs. I trust that our graduates/diploma and certificate holders will be able to change their career with newly acquired qualifications to meet the challengers in the 21st century. I am confident that CDCE is continuously growing and will expand as a fully-fledged center of distance and continuing education in Sri Lanka. I wish all the very best for the candidates enrolled at CDCE and hope they will be able to achieve their expected academic qualifications successfully.
Director
Prof. W. P. Wijewardena
| Telephone | 025- 2260110 |
| director_cdce@rjt.ac.lk |
