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Sri Lanka tertiary education dropouts at 30pct: Vocational training professional

High dropout rates could be tackled by having a more student-centered system which allows mature students who are employed to attend courses online ....

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LankaWeb – Tribute to Vidya Jyothi Emeritus Professor Dayantha Wijesekera

LankaWeb – Tribute to Vidya Jyothi Emeritus Professor Dayantha Wijesekera
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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), ....

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Awards ceremony at the Korea Press Federation which honoured Sri Lankan embassy

Awards ceremony at the Korea Press Federation which honoured Sri Lankan embassy
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ComBank supported VTA graduates find gainful employment

ComBank supported VTA graduates find gainful employment
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