education

Teaching in Northern Sri Lanka: Battling standardisation and Taylorism in education on the margins

Kuppi Talk / By

UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION, COLOMBO: “Education in the margins faces a number of pedagogical issues against the backdrop of World Bank or similar donor-funded curriculum-revisions adopted by the University Grants Commission …” By Erandika de Silva It is a fact that there are disparities in access to education between the major population centres in Sri Lanka …

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The role of education in reconciliation

Kuppi Talk / By

We have seen more blood than this small island can soak. The country has seen decades-long war and two youth insurrections (1971, 1988-89) with thousands of young lives lost. In the ‘post-war’ era, violence continues unabated in the attacks on Muslims and Christians, the Easter bombings, and countless horrifying incidents