Buffalo Minister closes Universities to make SL the Asian education model
(Lanka-e-News-22.Aug.2012, 11.50PM) S B Dissanayake , the Minister of higher education had closed all Universities in the Island from yesterday (21) , until further notice , supposedly to stall the further deterioration of the tense atmosphere in the Universities.
It is to be noted that the University Lecturers are on strike for the last two months without salaries, while the Govt. showed no concern at all towards resolving this issue. To compound the confusion , the students who qualified last year to enter the Universities have also not been admitted owing to the Z score muddling by the education Ministry.
On top of the Ministry’s multiple blunders , the question papers too set for the current G C E adv. level exam are abounding with errors. Moreover , because the lecturers are on strike, there is nobody to correct the answer scripts. The Teachers have also warned that if the Lecturers are not examining the question papers they too would suspend their markings.
Amidst these most unfortunate circumstances militating against the children’s education , for which the Education Ministry and the Govt. are absolutely responsible, the Minister S B Dissanayake had pointed out that there had arisen a situation triggering doubts whether the University system is actually functioning or not, and at what level .
The Minister therefore said he took this decision to close based on the powers vested in him by 1978 University Act No.16 , section 20 (4) A.
Interestingly , the MaRa Govt. of these two education Ministers , Bandula Gonawardena and S B Dissanayake , after tying them to one of its many double bullock carts of Ministers , had not realized that Buffaloes can only do one thing properly- graze in the fields, and having driven the country’s education system to rack and ruin on a scale unprecedented in SL ‘s history, said with pride depending on these buffaloes that it is going to make SL a model education hub of Asia.
(Lanka-e-News-22.Aug.2012, 11.50PM) S B Dissanayake , the Minister of higher education had closed all Universities in the Island from yesterday (21) , until further notice , supposedly to stall the further deterioration of the tense atmosphere in the Universities. It is to be noted that the University Lecturers are on strike for the last two months without salaries, while the Govt. showed no concern at all towards resolving this issue. To compound the confusion , the students who qualified last year to enter the Universities have also not been admitted owing to the Z score muddling by the education Ministry.
On top of the Ministry’s multiple blunders , the question papers too set for the current G C E adv. level exam are abounding with errors. Moreover , because the lecturers are on strike, there is nobody to correct the answer scripts. The Teachers have also warned that if the Lecturers are not examining the question papers they too would suspend their markings.
Amidst these most unfortunate circumstances militating against the children’s education , for which the Education Ministry and the Govt. are absolutely responsible, the Minister S B Dissanayake had pointed out that there had arisen a situation triggering doubts whether the University system is actually functioning or not, and at what level .
The Minister therefore said he took this decision to close based on the powers vested in him by 1978 University Act No.16 , section 20 (4) A.
Interestingly , the MaRa Govt. of these two education Ministers , Bandula Gonawardena and S B Dissanayake , after tying them to one of its many double bullock carts of Ministers , had not realized that Buffaloes can only do one thing properly- graze in the fields, and having driven the country’s education system to rack and ruin on a scale unprecedented in SL ‘s history, said with pride depending on these buffaloes that it is going to make SL a model education hub of Asia.
