University of Jaffna

The Jaffna campus was inaugurated with two faculties, the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities. In the gazette notification of the establishment of the Jaffna campus, it was mentioned that the campus would be established with three faculties Humanities, Law and Science and another one department of study; Physical Education. At the inception of the campus in 1974, only the faculties of humanities and science were founded to admit undergraduate students. On the first of January 1979, the Jaffna campus of the University of Sri Lanka became an autonomous University with the University Act (no.16 of 1978) and was named as University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Since then the University of Jaffna has grown steadily and at present it has seven faculties and the Vavuniya campus with two faculties. Upon receiving large number of requests from various sectors to commence a Physical Education Degree Programme, the Physical Education Unit (Academic), University of Jaffna was founded in October 1998 with Academic and Non-Academic cadre provision from the UGC. Since then a self-financing two year Diploma Programme in Physical Education at the University of Jaffna has been offered and fifty students are admitted annually. The Physical Education Unit was administered by the Coordinator under the direct supervision and control of Vice Chancellor, University of Jaffna. In 2003, to cater the emerging needs of the Sports and Leisure world, Physical Education Unit (Academic) was renamed as Sports Science Unit, and working towards to start Bachelor of Physical Education and Sports for the increasing demand of physical educationists in Sri Lanka. At present Sports Science Unit have four approved cadre provision and three of them are Senior Lecturers with PhD. Vision of the Degree Programme