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common for all universities for the course. Although there is a suggested

manual with course modules, each university designed their own curriculum
for the CCPDHE course. Considering the drawback, a policy guideline is

thus necessitated to streamline the course contents to incorporate teaching

methods for SWDs.

6.6. Financial Allocation
There are certain financial provisions being extended to the universities by

the Ministry of Higher Education through the UGC. Universities are given

financial allocations based on the number of students in a single intake.
Diversity doesn’t matter here, but only the numbers are considered. Even

though universities receive financial allocations based on students’ number,
no financial allocations are made for SWDs from the UGC; SWDs are

enumerated as normal intakes in financial allocations and no special
financial provisions for welfare of the SWDs are set to be allocated yet.

Even though, some faculties such as the FHSS of Ruhuna enroll SWDs

under the disabled students’ category, there is no special financial allocation
from the government to accommodate those students. Therefore, it is quite

difficult for state universities to provide special facilities for SWDs. This

non allocation of financial resources was identified as one of the main
barriers when addressing specific teaching- learning needs of SWDs.

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