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A Meeting with a team lead by Mr. Keith Davis, Country Director, British Council was held on 19^th May 2015 at the University Main Boardroom. The objective of this meeting was to discuss different projects with the University of Moratuwa, including jewellery design, typography and especially architecture. The meeting was chaired by the Vice-Chancellor.

Vice Chancellor - Professor Helen Marshall, Head of School – Professor Hisham Elkadi, Deputy Head of Schol – Mr. David Baldry, Dr. Udayangani Kulatunga and Dr. Ingirige Bingunath from University of Salford visited University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka on 27th July 2015 and discussed about the progress of signed MOU.

The Canadian Government has launched ‘The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship Program’ to attract 1,500 scholarship recipients to the Universities in Canada over a period of five years and develop academic programmes between the governments of Canada and Sri Lanka. 

36th General Convocation of University of Moratuwa was held on 21st of September 2015 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH). The Chancellor of the University, VidyaJyothi Professor Emeritus KKYW Perera, presided the Convocation Ceremony. It was attended by the graduands with their parents, distinguished invitees, as well as the academic and administrative staff of the University.

Chinese delegates including Mr. Liu Ming - Director, International College, Mr. Xuegang Hu - Vice Director, Office of Academic Affairs, Mr. Liu Yang Sloan from Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Mr. Zhao You You, Mr. Yang Xi from Chongqing International Exchange Association visited University of Moratuwa

Foreign delegates including Ms. Heike Mock - Director, Ms. Shikha Sinha - Senior Advisor, International Cooperation from DeutscherAkademischer Austauschdienst German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) visited University of Moratuwa

Vice Chancellor of University of Moratuwa met group of students, who recently won the  HSBC Youth Enterprise Awards (YEA) 2015. YEA is a Business Idea Contest jointly organized by British Council and HSBC. It aims to recognize and support young entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka to start up their own businesses.

We are pleased to announce that the Bachelor of the Science of Engineering (Hons) degree awarded by the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering have been granted full accreditation in accordance with the Washington Accord, by the Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL).

Professor (Dr.) Roslan Zainal Abidin, the Vice Chancellor of Infrastructure University, Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia visited University of Moratuwa on 11th December, 2015 and discussed the mutually imported matters for the both Universities.

Chinese delegates including Mr. Wu Cheng, Deputy Director General and Mr. Wang Xiongwu, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province, Mr. Pan Pingchuan, Assistant President of Sichuan Institute of Atomic Energy, Professor Chen Rongjum,  from Sichuan Agricultural University and Associate professor, Tang Xuefei  of  the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China visited University  of Moratuwa