Education

Sri Lanka is not the only country that has seen a gradual decline in the quality of education over time; but this is one of the few such places which pride that deterioration as ‘progress’. Half-baked and insular scholarship that was produced over the decades actually tend to believe in this fallacy. The political class, […]

“The John Kotelawala National Defence University Bill to be presented in Parliament is far more dangerous than the White Paper on education that was brought before the country in 1981 to destroy free education. This is the gravest bill presented in the 21st century to privatize education. The bill gives provisions to privatize state universities […]

(AHRC) Five senior students of the Deniyaya Central College in Matara District, were tortured by the Principal of the school in his office on 17 October 2017. On 16 October, students started getting out of the school bus. At a stop near the school, one unknown student in the bus murmured the word ‘Pina’. Then […]

08. There are serious concerns about the current Government’s moves to slash public expenditure, especially on health and education in 2017. Moreover, the push for privatization and the plans to initiate sweeping reforms in critical areas, such as social security, land and labour guided by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund’s austerity mind-set, raises […]

    Sri Lanka is short of a basic component that’s a prerequisite for sustainable development as the country lacks about 15,000 scientists who can be actively entrenched in scientific research, said the Project Director of the Coordinating Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Ajith De Alwis. This was said at a media briefing […]

CONOMYNEXT – Colossal losses that state-run SriLankan Airlines was made to suffer since ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa chased away Emirates Airlines, and a questionable aircraft deal, is a national financial crime, Deputy Minister Eran Wickramaratne said. SriLankan Airlines, which made profit of 4.4 billion rupees in 2008, the year in which the management agreement with Emirates […]

The Systematic Country Diagnostic is a comprehensive assessment of constraints and drivers of progress towards the twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity.  It is an important input to how the World Bank Group engages with its client countries. Findings: Sri Lanka is in many respects a development success story.   Growth has averaged […]

(Sri Lanka Military) The Defence budget will remain high next year also, but most significantly the allocation for education has been increased four-fold. The defence allocation is more than Rs. 306 billion. In contrast, the allocation for the Office of the President has been heavily reduced in comparison to allocations made under the previous administration. […]

[ A protest by University academics] The presidential election has been announced and each of us will be called upon to exercise our vote as citizens of this country on the 8th of January 2015. It is our considered view that our country is at a historically important juncture at this moment and our decision […]

[University-Leadership-Training-Sri-Lanka] Sri Lanka’s Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF) on Tuesday alleged that an undergrad undergoing the military’s compulsory leadership training program, has been sexually abused by a soldier, while another student has become handicapped due to an accident during the training. Issuing a statement, Convener of the IUSF Najith Indika has said that the prospective […]

The temporary hut that sheltered Rajarata University student protesters was burnt for the third time early this morning. Rajarata University Students Federation member Lasantha Priyankara said a group of men came in a van and hurled a bottle of petrel to blaze the hut. However, students staying inside the hut at the time of the […]

(Photo:Tableaux of Aufidius) “In several World Bank reports we have pointed out that Sri Lanka under invests in education. Sri Lanka’s investment in education as percentage of GDP is one of the lowest in the region and in the world in terms of middle income countries.” “Each country has to decide what percentage of the […]

424 candidates who passed the education administration examination and were enrolled in the administrative service are being given military training at the Rantembe camp under the guise of ‘leadership training,’ Joseph Stalin , the secretary of the Lanka Teachers union revealed.  Stalin expressing his views to Lanka e news said : the 424 candidates who […]

University invaded ‘Names of dons who spoke against Deyata Kirula at Senate meeting were leaked to thugs’The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) yesterday asked the government to stop harassing its members following a recent goon attack on the Ruhuna University students or face a countrywide strike. Addressing a media conference at the Faculty Club […]

Thugs led by MP Jayasuriya University teachers question as to whether S.B. Dissanayake is the minister in charge of higher education, or if not livestock or terrorism affairs.Their association FUTA, at a media briefing in Colombo today (06), charged the government of being behind death threats received by lecturers of Ruhunu University after they condemned […]

Uni students’ protest   ( photo: demotix) Over 1,500 undergraduates have been suspended up to date since 2010, with more undergraduates being imprisoned, harassed and abducted in an ever increasing rise in student suppression, student activists said. Addressing the media last evening (4), the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) alleged that over 1,500 students have been […]

Tilvyn Silva showing evidence The government closes universities to hold carnivals, while the master blaster has become a thug leader ripping open students’ heads, said JVP secretary Tilvyn Silva. Speaking to the media in Colombo today (03), Mr. Silva condemned the attack on the previous day on Ruhuna University students by government thugs led by […]

Jayasuriya leading  the unruly crowd A group of thugs of politicians who stormed into the University of Ruhuna at around 2.00 pm  on June 02 have allegedly attacked a group of students and threatened lecturers. A group of nearly 300 of parliamentarian Sanath Jayasuriya, Provincial Council Minister D.V Upul and Aruna Gunaratne have thus been […]

Education: One of the most important issue  ”The integrity and commitment of Chief Minister Wigneswaran to work for the good of the people of the Northern Province, and indeed all of us in Sri Lanka, as well as his commitment to work towards post-war reconstruction and reconciliation in a united Sri Lanka that respects diversity […]

                           (Photo: Army.lk) The Sri Lankan Army held a workshop for schoolchildren in Kilinochchi on Saturday, to “enlighten students” on telecommunication, according to their website. Troops from the 9 Sri Lanka Signal Corps organised the event, which was attended by senior military commanders, including Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe, Commander of the Sri Lankan Security Forces […]

A student leader assaulted  in custody Of the 17 student activists arrested on Friday, four were admitted to the Accident Ward in the National Hospital yesterday, after sustaining injuries while in police custody. However, the activists claim that two of the more seriously injured students have not been hospitalised despite pleas, a claim denied by […]

Four Allied Science Student leaders arrested Four activists of Allied Health Science Faculty students’ Union were arrested during the mass agitation held opposite University Grants Commission today (16th) against the move to reduce the period of the Allied Health Science degree to three years. The President of the Peradeniya Students’ Council, the President and Vice […]

A protest march from University Grant’s Commission to the Temple Trees, headed by the Inter University Students’ Federation was held on 7th May 2014 with the participation of thousands of students. The protest demanded for the reinstatement of the four year Allied Health Sciences degree and dropping the unjust suspensions against 27 student activists of […]

General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) Joseph Stalin accused Army is collecting data of school children, teachers and principals in the North. Stalin said the process had been carried out by the Army throughout the recent past and it had instilled fear in the hearts of the school children, teachers, principals and parents. […]

Given the opportunity to allocate money from the National Budget to sectors of their choice, people would choose Education, Health and Agriculture. Around 82% of Sri Lankans say that the general security situation in the country has changed for the better over the last two years, with 42.8% stating that it has got a lot […]

Children of a Lesser God by Tisaranee Gunasekara “…justice by its very nature has to have a universal reach, rather than being applicable to the problems and predicaments of some people but not of others”. Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice) Rs.1.8 billion was spent on building one kilometre of the Katunayake-Colombo expressway. That was […]

Allocations for education, healthcare see no growth The country is pushing ahead for ‘jobless growth’ with allocations to Defence in the 2013 budget growing significantly, and although the Urban Development Authority (UDA) functions under the Ministry of Defence, its share of the allocation is less than 5 percent, while education and healthcare do not see […]

Some 4,000 school principals have been called for interviews at the Cadet Corps Headquarters next week to be awarded military titles, raising more concerns over the militarization of more than 50 per cent of the schools in the country.The letters sent out by the Sri Lanka Cadet Corps (SLCC) state that officials of the Sri […]

Eric J. de Silva (Former Secretary, Ministry of Education) Every government that we have had since the Youth Commission of 1990 has acknowledged the need for us to have a National Education Policy which does not change with every change of government or administration. Despite setting up the machinery for the purpose under the National […]

”Mr Speaker, the emphasis throughout His Excellency’s Budget Speech on education and training makes clear the importance this government attaches to the subject. I am aware however that, in some areas, excellent ideas are not implemented, sometimes because of a lack of will, sometimes because of a lack of capacity. As we saw in Welikada […]