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What is quality in higher education?

By Kaushalya Perera With more interest in the quality of higher education in Sri Lanka than ever before, and with a pandemic forcing far-reaching changes, this is an opportune time to discuss what quality means for university education. Quality in state universities Mention quality in higher education and attention inevitably veers to the state universities functioning under the University Grants Commission (UGC). The foremost complaint about graduates of these universities is their ‘unemployability’. Successive governments and the World Bank have, rather simplistically, equated unemployability with low English proficiency and low computer literacy. Unions and educationists have critiqued this argument, and pointed to the lack of state investment in education as a major reason for their weaknesses. However, from the government’s point of view, the ‘employable’ graduate is to be produced not through state funds (education received a mere 2.1% of GDP in 2018), but through

Sri Lanka calls for stronger regional cooperation for building back better from pandemic

Speaking on the theme ‘Building back better from crises through regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific’ Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at the inauguration of the 77 th Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)  outlined  Sri Lanka’s successful approach in  controlling the COVID-19 and  called  for  renewed “South-South” cooperation, to recover from the pandemic.  The session was held virtually in Bangkok from 26 to 29 April 2012.  Prime Minister Rajapaksa stated that even during the pandemic, economic and export sector continued to function, tourism restarted in January and the Central Bank reduced policy rates and implemented several concessionary refinancing programs in Sri Lanka.

LankaWeb – BANGKOK : Sri Lanka calls for stronger regional cooperation for building back better from the pandemic through promotion of trade, investment and foreign employment opportunities at the 77th Session of the UNESCAP in Bangkok

MR tells UN Sri Lanka made remarkable progress in controlling COVID-19

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has told the United Nations (UN), Sri Lanka has made remarkable progress in controlling the spread of COVID-19. He said that Sri Lanka recorded a very low death rate and a high recovery rate through case detection, contact tracing, quarantining and patient treatment. Sri Lanka s robust public healthcare system provided free access to health and helped control the pandemic. The Government also repatriated nearly 100,000 Sri Lankans and started our vaccination program in February, he said. The Prime Minister expressed these views via a video message today while addressing the opening segment of the 77th Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).