Author name: Hasini Lecamwasam

Supporting Victims: The Missing Link in Combating Ragging

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Udari Abeyasinghe A recent panel discussion held at the University of Peradeniya discussed the implications of the Supreme Court’s recent judgement on ragging where the Court recognized that preventing ragging requires more than criminal penalties imposed after an incident occurs, but also systems and processes within universities that enable victims to speak up and receive […]

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Recruiting academics to state universities – beset by archaic selection processes?  

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Kaushalya Perera Time has, by and large, stood still in the business of academic staff recruitment to state universities. Qualifications have proliferated and evolved to be more interdisciplinary, but our selection processes and evaluation criteria are unchanged since at least the late 1990s. But before I delve into the problems, I describe the existing processes

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The Call for Review of Reforms in Education: the discussion continues . . .

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Sivamohan Sumathy The hype around educational reforms has abated slightly, but the scandal of the reforms persists. And in saying scandal, I don’t mean the error of judgement surrounding a misprinted link of an online dating site in a grade six English language text book. While that fiasco took on a nasty, undeserved  attack on

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General Educational Reforms: To what purpose? A statement by state university teachers

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One of the major initiatives of the NPP government is reforming the country’s education system. Immediately after coming to power, the government started the process of bringing about “transformational” changes to general education. The budgetary allocation to education has been increased to 2% of GDP (from 1.8% in 2023).  Although this increase is not sufficient, the

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General education reforms: What about language and ethnicity?

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Ramya Kumar A new batch arrived at our Faculty again. Students representing almost all districts of the country remind me once again of the wonderful opportunity we have for promoting social and ethnic cohesion at our universities. Sadly, however, many students do not interact with each other during the first few semesters, not only because

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General education reforms: What about language and ethnicity?

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Ramya Kumar A new batch arrived at our Faculty again. Students representing almost all districts of the country remind me once again of the wonderful opportunity we have for promoting social and ethnic cohesion at our universities. Sadly, however, many students do not interact with each other during the first few semesters, not only because

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An awakening: Revisiting education policy after Cyclone Ditwah

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Sumathy Sivamohan In the short span of two or three days, Cyclone Ditwah, has caused a disaster of unprecedented proportions in our midst. Lashing away at almost the entirety of the country, it has broken through the ramparts of centuries old structures and eroded into areas, once considered safe and secure. The rains may have

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