Office for Overseas Sri Lankan Affairs has been supporting to build network with the Sri Lankan professionals, scholars, and scientists living abroad to share their expertise with the local counterparts and to build capacities of Sri Lankan institutions including universities.
As another step forward , OOSLA collaborated with the Faculty of Arts of the University of Colombo, to host a symposium on ‘good manuscript writing’, on 19 December, at the Faculty of Arts for a group of 35 academics from various social science disciplines of the Faculty of Arts . The Session was conducted by Lakshman Samaranayake , of University of Hong Kong who has published over 450 manuscripts cited in the literature over 33,000 occasions. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Dental Journal – The Flagship Journal of the World Dental Federation representing over a million dentists. Lakshman Samaranayake is ranked the No 11 microbiologist in China out of 43,767 scientists.