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Rationalise free school textbook programme

In yesterday’s (12) edition of The Island was a front-page news report that the government intended to seek a loan from India to print school-text books for 2023.The distribution of school textbooks to all students free of charge is a short-sighted programme initiated by a government decades ago to obtain votes at the polls. (In fact, in the not too distant past, […] ....

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'Professor of English Language Teaching' – The Island


It is a pleasure to be here today, when the University resumes postgraduate work in English and Education which we first embarked on over 20 years ago. The presence of a Professor on English Language Teaching from Kelaniya makes clear that the concept has now been mainstreamed, which is a cause for great satisfaction.
Twenty years ago, this was not the case. Our initiative was looked at askance, as indeed was the initiative which Prof. Arjuna Aluwihare engaged in as UGC Chairman to make degrees in English more widely available. Those were the days in which the three established Departments of English in the University system, at Peradeniya and Kelaniya and Colombo, were unbelievably conservative. Their contempt for his efforts made him turn to Sri Jayewardenepura, which did not even have a Department of English then and only offered it as one amongst three subjects for a General Degree. ....

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