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The Horana Sri Palee Campus has been gazetted as the Faculty of Mass Media of the Colombo University.
Prime Minister Dr.Harini Amarasuriya has issued this gazette announcement.
Its departments are gazetted as Department of Mass Media Studies, Department of Language Studies, Department of Computer Studies and Department of Performing Arts Studies.
Established in 1996 as the West Board of the Colombo University in Horana, it conducted undergraduate and postgraduate courses in media and performing arts studies. Later the name was changed to Sri Palee Mandapa of Colombo University under the University Act in 1988 and until now it has been functioning under a Campus President. Teaching was done in the Departments of Mass Media, Performing Arts, Computer and Language Studies and after being declared as the Faculty of Mass Media, these departments were gazetted as Departments.
Nuwan Kodikara
