Impact of Changing University Admission Criteria on Engineering Education in Sri Lanka

The number of subjects to be offered for GCE (Advanced Level)examination for university admission in Sri Lanka is going to be reduced to three from the four subjects required at present. That means, one subject has to be dropped from the present set of subjects. There has been a debate regarding which subject should to be dropped. At the same time, a set of new subjects are being introduced and revision of syllabi are also taking place. This article tries to critically analyse the impact of the proposed innovations with respect to different possible decisions related to the admissions to the faculties of engineering in Sri Lanka.