Streamlining university education

Government has recently taken a policy decision to bring the private sector for higher education system. Under this initiative, it is expected that international/foreign universities will be in Sri Lanka and provide their facilities on this basis, there will be a competition in the recruitments for higher education. Under this policy, one interesting question to be answered is “What would be the challenges faced by established universities in Sri Lanka?”

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Have you seen the trees that stood on the road taking you to bliss?

There are moments when we have eyes and moments when we are blind. There are things we pass everyday on our way to school or work but we don’t notice. There are books that stare us in the face from bookshelf and yesterday but we don’t notice their names. There are people who walk in and out of our lives whose names we do not know, and people through whose lives, hearts, minds and blood streams we travel without ever asking where they live, who they are or even if they mind.

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Learning Pluralism from the West

There were a few NGOs funded by the National Christian Council such as the ‘National Peace Council’ that have been advocating pluralism among the Sri Lankans and they opine that the cause of the so-called ‘ethnic conflict’ in this country was the absence of pluralism in nation building in the post independent Sri Lanka.

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