President emphasized the need to prevent brain drain to achieve rapid development

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emphasized the need of preventing brain drain to achieve rapid development in the country ‘If the Government
as well as the private sector can ensure that a high standard of education is provided by local universities and other higher educational
institutions, it may even be possible for us to start attracting international students to study in Sri Lanka and convert the higher
education sector into a foreign exchange earner for the country&, the President said.The President made these remarks addressing the
Convocation of the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University held at the BMICH, yesterday (10).