I thank you for your courage and valiant bravery for standing up for our rights !!

The Great Educators of Sri Lanka are protecting our future and stand up what is right !!

Education should not be reserved for rich people only..

It belongs for All Us- Sri Lankans !!

I wish Sri Lanka will be remained as a very resourceful country at least for next few generations as it was years ago.

The government is keep failing to offer and facilitate the disciplines of the country which are MUST. Instead of improving the quality of the life , they struggle to seek billions to invest on a sea city for tourist attraction. The system is trying to convince the people how beautiful it could be by prophesying the future advancements IF agreed with the current policies. People are misguided and barely realise that the transparency has been absconded over the recent years.

Politics has been the most popular field where you can earn power and an economical stability which lasts for few generations onward . A miracle needs to be taken place if an educated personal to get elected as a member of our parliament. And he will hardly survive.

I am expecting an intelligent and a firm system which can be driven independently for the betterment of the people of Sri Lanka.

I agreed we will be less employable than the people who stays in home and speak English. But I am unable to comprehend what makes you think that the people who studied in abroad are more likely to get employed. I am one of them with a good hons degree in medical science from a reputed university in the world and has been unable to secure at least a trainee position in Sri Lanka. Interviews have always been very very encouraging whereas theyalways been

Do you have a life?

Well of course before rajapaksa, Sl academics showing the best results from the UNIz… :P

FUTA is full of such big talk but the truth is they(lecturers ) even couldn’t/didn’t want to, stop ragging in universities. From my experience, lecturers can stop ragging if they really want it to happen. The whole leadership training came as a way to counter it.

BTW students really didn’t get any military training. The program was mandatory but the students had the liberty to skip some of the actives in the program (like physical exercises, etc.). And from what i hear (from participants) they quite enjoyed it.

http://www.lankatruth.com/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2975%3Aexam-muddle-is-an-international-conspiracy–bandula&catid=36%3Atop-stories

Where exactly did you find this “response”. Whatever the case, the government seems to have given the FUTA a better response than above.(http://dailymirror.lk/news/21348-futa-on-positive-govt-response-.html)

“If you study hard and go to uni you’ll be less employable than A, B and C”

Well that depends on the course your are following. The biggest problem is that government uni courses does not follow the demand in the country (and market). 25% (5000 out of 20, 000) of the intake to the government unis are in the Arts stream. And some lecturers them selves resist any changes such as discontinuing courses. Quality of the lecturers is another matter.
For example, the government effort to attract foreign students by giving them scholarships and FUTA is demanding to discontinue that.

Also there is a serious shortage of lecturers (in certain streams) in the government Unis. The main reason for that is the salary issue.
Sri lankan government university academics have similar salaries, what ever their stream is.
For example a civil engineering professor would get the same salary of a Sinhalese professor. Medical professor same. professor in nano science, same. Basically all the professors have the same salary. All the probationary lecturers have the same salary. so and so…
So while first class art graduate will be happy to take a job that has a monthly salary of Rs.50, 000, a computer science graduate (also first class) would not be much willing to take that option.