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28-713: The Bengal Medical College was established in Calcutta in 1835. In 1839 Stewart-Mackenzie , the British Governor of Ceylon , started sending a small number of Ceylonese to study medicine in Calcutta. In 1847 Samuel Fisk Green , an American medical missionary, started a private medical school in Manipay , northern Ceylon. The establishment of a medical school in Ceylon was advocated by Governor George William Anderson in 1852. The island

56-534: A fully fledged degree-granting university. In February 1924 the legislative council set aside Rs. 3 million for the creation of such a university. Marrs had prepared a draft university ordinance, based on the Sadler Commission , by 1925. However, the establishment of the university was delayed by disputes over its location. Ceylon University College was based on an 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 -acre site in Colombo which

84-463: A group of the country's elite including Ponnambalam Arunachalam , James Peiris and Marcus Fernando . In June 1911 Governor Henry McCallum appointed a ten-member sub-committee of the Legislative Council of Ceylon to look into education in Ceylon. The Macleod Committee finished its work in 1912 and amongst its recommendations were that a university college be established to centralise

112-548: Is the second oldest medical college to teach Western medicine in Asia after Ecole de Médicine de Pondichéry and the second institute to teach in English language. The college offers MBBS degree after five and a half years of medical training. Student politics is rooted in tradition, with many students participating in the Indian freedom struggle. Anti-British movements were implemented with

140-467: The Ceylon Medical College , Ceylon Law College and a small number of schools which offered undergraduate courses followed by external examinations for Indian or British universities. The country's elite would send their children to be educated at British universities. Demand started growing for the establishment of a university in Ceylon. The Ceylon University Association was formed in 1906 by

168-610: The University of London 's Intermediate and Final examinations. Edwin Evans, the acting director of education, was the college's first principal. All classes were held at College House except science which was taught at Government Technical Schools. 115 students were registered at the college in its first academic year at the end of which eight students sat the University of London's examinations, seven of whom passed. Robert Marrs succeeded

196-445: The University of Oxford , and would offer general higher education including courses in arts and sciences for trainee teachers and preliminary courses in chemistry, physics and biology for medical students. The college was to be residential and hostels would be provided by the government. The college was to be open to women. The college would in due course be converted into a degree-granting university. The proposals were accepted by

224-468: The 1950s to the 1970s, the college became a centre of leftist and far-left politics. Student politics was highly influenced by the Naxalbari uprising in the early 1970s. Medical College, Kolkata was ranked 45th among Medical Institutions by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2023. It held the rank of 43 in 2022. In February 2023, Dr. Sudip Das, a professor of ENT Department from

252-690: The Catholic Hostel (Havelock Road) opened in November 1922. The Old Royal College Building was transferred to the college in October 1923 and teaching of arts was transferred from College House to the Old Royal College Building. A hostel for women students (Cruden, Queen's Road) opened in June 1932. Ivor Jennings became principal in 1940. The college had always been intended to be a stepping stone to

280-509: The Secretary of State. World War I and the resulting increases in prices put a halt to the project. The project was resurrected in 1917 and provision was made in the 1917/18 budget for construction of new facilities and purchase of equipment. However, work was slow and in May 1920 the government purchased Regina Walauwa , a private house on Thurstan Road , for use by the college. Regina Walauwa

308-488: The biology building was given to the school by Sir Charles Henry de Soysa . In the same year his uncle Mudaliyar Susew de Soysa donated the school buildings which housed the colonial medical library , the pathology museum and the biological laboratory . His son Mudaliyar J. W. C. de Soysa provided the funds to build the bacteriological institute in 1899. Other benefactors included Muhandiram A. Simon Fernando Wijegooneratne and Vimala Gunawardane. The school's course length

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336-689: The college. The Council of the Ceylon Medical College was incorporated by Ordinance No. 3 1905. Ordinance No. 5 1905 (Medical Registration Ordinance) allowed the Council of the Ceylon Medical College to register individuals (including holders of the Colombo LMS) allowed to practice medicine and surgery in Ceylon. The Ceylon University Ordinance No. 20 of 1942 established the University of Ceylon on 1 July 1942 by amalgamating Ceylon Medical College with Ceylon University College . The medical college became

364-650: The country's fragmented higher education system. McCallum accepted the committee's recommendations and submitted the proposals to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Board of Education . The proposals were sent back with questions which were in turn answered by Robert Chalmers , McCallum's successor. The college would be called Ceylon University College and would be based in the buildings of Royal College, Colombo . It would be affiliated to an English university, preferably

392-413: The director of education as principal at the beginning of the 1921/22 academic year. The University College laboratories were opened by Governor William Manning on 1 October 1921 and the teaching of science was transferred from Government Technical Schools to the new laboratories. The Christian Hostel (Brodie House, Bagatelle Road) and Union Hostel (Guildford Crescent) were opened in October 1922 whilst

420-464: The institution, gets a patent for developing a simple and innovative device. Ceylon University College Ceylon University College was a public university college in Ceylon . Established in 1921, it was Ceylon's first attempt at university education. The college didn't award degrees under its own name but prepared students to sit the University of London 's external examination . The college

448-582: The legislative council resolved that the university should be located in the Dumbara Valley near Kandy and requested the government appoint a commission (the Buchanen-Riddel Commission) to formulate the details. A draft constitution for the university was prepared in 1930. The legislative council was replaced by the State Council of Ceylon in 1931, and responsibility for the establishment of

476-526: The new university's faculty of medicine. Bengal Medical College Medical College, Kolkata , also known as Calcutta Medical College , is a Government medical college and hospital located in Kolkata , West Bengal , India . It is one of the oldest existing hospitals in India. The institute was established on 28 January 1835 by Lord William Bentinck during British Raj as Medical College, Bengal . It

504-454: The partition of Bengal and communal riots during and after the partition of India . Between 1946 and 1952, the college's doctors stood for communal harmony and worked hard in the refugee colonies. During 1952, ex-students of the college, among them Bidhan Chandra Roy who became the second Chief Minister of West Bengal , established the Students' Health Home for the welfare of students. From

532-539: The programmes of Bengal Provincial Students' Federation (BPSF), the Bengal branch of All India Students' Federation . Student politics was initially focused on the independence of India. In 1947, Sree Dhiraranjan Sen, a student of the college, died during a Vietnam Day police firing. The Vietnam Students’ Association passed a resolution in its Hanoi session in memory of Sen in March 1947. Student politics were highly influenced by

560-514: The university was entrusted to the State Council's various executive committees. In 1937 the State Council approved a motion by George E. de Silva for the university to be located at Aruppola near Kandy. However, Paul and Andreas Nell argued that the site should be in Peradeniya not Aruppola, and they were now supported by Marrs. Eventually Peradeniya was chosen to be the site and it was decided

588-500: Was based in Colombo . The college was merged with Ceylon Medical College in 1942 to form the University of Ceylon . The college was also known as University College, Ceylon ; University College, Colombo ; and Colombo University College . Its buildings and grounds are now occupied by the University of Colombo which is considered its successor. In the nineteenth century the only institutions to offer higher education in Ceylon were

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616-481: Was based in the female surgical ward of the then General Hospital in Colombo . The school was controlled by the government's Principal Civil Medical Officer. The school's courses lasted five years after which students sat examinations and if they passed they received a diploma of Licentiate of Medicine and Surgery (LMS). This allowed them to practice medicine and surgery. The school had lecture rooms, laboratories, dissecting rooms and two libraries. Physics and chemistry

644-963: Was extended to five years in 1884. On 29 December 1887 the school's LMS diploma was recognised by the General Medical Council at a meeting of the Privy Council held at Osborne House . This recognition meant that holders of the Colombo LMS were registered medical practitioners under the Medical Act 1886 and could practice anywhere in the British Empire . They could also pursue post-graduate studies in Britain without needing to re-take any undergraduate courses. The college started admitting female students in 1892. Allan Perry took over from Vanderstraatcn in 1898. In 1905 two ordinances were passed relating to

672-567: Was extended to four years in 1873. Loos left the school in 1875 after being appointed colonial surgeon for the Central Province . He was replaced by Edwin Lawson Koch. In 1876 the government started providing scholarships which provided free education at the school and post-graduate studies in Britain. Koch died in 1877 and was replaced by Julian Louis Vanderstraatcn. The school was renamed Ceylon Medical College in 1880. The college's course length

700-527: Was hit by the yaws disease in the 1860s, leading to a massive depopulation in the Vanni . In 1867 governor Hercules Robinson appointed James Loos, the colonial surgeon for the Northern Province , to investigate the depopulation. Amongst Loos' recommendations was that there should be a plan for medical education in the country. The Colombo Medical School was opened on 1 June 1870 by Governor Robinson. The school

728-482: Was inadequate for a university. Marrs favoured a non-residential university based in Colombo. Others, including P. Arunachalam, D. B. Jayatilaka , D. R. Wijewardena and S. C. Paul , favoured Peradeniya or Kandy because of their climate and they had ample cheap land. Governor Hugh Clifford appointed a committee to investigate a site for the university. The committee recommended that the university should be residential and be based at Uyanawatta near Kandy. In 1927

756-510: Was later renamed College House. E. B. Denham , the local director of education, decided that the college should open immediately, using College House as lecture rooms whilst the Royal College buildings were completed. Provision was made in the 1920/21 budget for the running of the college which officially opened on 24 January 1921. The college was not affiliated to the University of Oxford as originally proposed, but instead offered courses for

784-496: Was taught at Ceylon Technical College . The first batch consisted of 25 students (all male). James Loos was the school's first principal. The school benefited from large endowments , including land and buildings, provided by locals. In 1875 Mudaliyar Samson Rajapakse gifted three and a half acres of land on which the school's successor, the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo , stands today. The De Soysa Hospital/Lying-in-Home and

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