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No English, ICT for university entrants this year - Minister SB Thursday, 23 August 2012 - 4:25 PM SL Time |  | |
Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake yesterday told Parliament that the English and Information Communication Technology courses conducted for university entrants every year, would not be held this year.
However, the leadership training programme, conducted for them in army camps, would be continued, the Minister said, adding that the new batch of students would be enrolled in October this year.
He said that the crisis situation caused by the Z-score problem had resulted in a situation where the English and ICT compulsory courses for the new university entrants could not be conducted. He said that action would be taken to reopen the universities for academic activities soon. The decision to close universities had been taken after a meeting with Vice Chancellors and deans of universities. Powers had been vested in him by the Universities Act to close those universities by issuing a special gazette notification. That gazette notice had been handed over to the Secretary General of Parliament, he said.
The minister was responding to a question raised by Matara District UNP MP Buddhika Pathirana.
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Closing universities will result in the end of Sri Lankan government - Marxist party
Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 08:19 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Aug 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) says the government has decided to shut down universities in the country in order to side step from the issues faced by the higher education sector.
JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva said the closure of universities was not the solution since it would not get rid of the issues faced by the higher education sector.
He warned that closing down universities and continuing with the closure would eventually result in the government's end.
He explained that instead of closing the universities, the government should take steps to address the issues faced by the university lecturers and work to end the strike.
'There is no reason to close the Universities at this moment and the Government should provide immediate solutions for the Lecturers who have been on a strike for nearly two months,' the JVP General Secretary said.
'We will have to resort to strong political action if the government continues to neglect the country's education sector,' Silva said.
The Higher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake yesterday ordered the university administrators to close all universities except the medical faculties in them until further notice due to the protracted strike by the university academics jeopardizing the future of the university students.
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 23 Aug 2012 09:58:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Roshan
I guess I'm as confused as the 4 guys in your cartoon.
Student life doesn't seem to be easy for those who would like to work seriously.
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English and ICT no, Military Training Yes!!
Mahinda Chintanaya..
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Sri Lankan donkeys dont need english or ICT..
mahinda mama will provide them with, three wheeler to drive, SL passport to go to middle east as housemaid, and bottle of Arak to drink
whatelse these donkeys need??? |
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EH,
The cartoon says pancha maha balawegaya (4 power forces) on the road. doctors, teachers, farmers, workers.
mahinda mama will provide them with, three wheeler to drive, SL passport to go to middle east as housemaid, and bottle of Arak to drink
UPFA is messing up the system the repercussions would propagate to coming decades. politicians don't give a hoot about it. |
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