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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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Working with dignity: Reflections from within academia

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Udari Abeyasinghe Considering the range of experiences academics encounter in university environments, from collegiality to subtle hostility, it is worth asking whether higher education institutions genuinely allow their junior members to work with dignity. Do our academic environments foster fairness, respect and recognition they truly deserve, or do they continue to erode these very principles?

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Form-ation of Higher Education in Sri Lanka

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Improving higher education in Sri Lanka is not only important, but essential and long overdue. However, seeking to achieve higher ‘quality’ by ‘form-ising’ the performance of teachers (or the practice of forcing the entire teaching-learning exercise into forms designed to communicate exactly what and what transpires in a classroom) may not be able to bring about the desired change.

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