They are two-year colleges, providing courses designed to meet the skill requirements of the developing nation.
[7] The Junior University College concept was proposed by the Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs of Ceylon, I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla.
Impressed with what he saw, he "returned to Ceylon with renewed enthusiasm and determination to provide semi-professional education for his nation."
[8] Immediately after the appointment of the first group of faculty in the spring of 1968, a series of workshops planned and directed by Charles C. Collins, the first of four scheduled Fulbright professors (1967–68), produced detailed course outlines and developed plans for a comprehensive student personnel services program.
For the first time in the nation's history, the junior university colleges were to be staffed by full-time guidance and placement counselors.