Computer literacy: Overcoming the Challenges
COMPUTER literacy and English language skills are
necessary to build a competent employee required by the corporate
sector. However this competency is absent in many educated youth.
This is in spite of increased Government and parental spending.
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The business of education
POOR parents see education as an indispensable
asset and are willing to make enormous sacrifices to educate their
children. But the government has let down the poor in spite of the
Constitutional guarantee of right to education. Its supplies have
not corresponded with the explosive demand for education today.
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Accessibility - Whose responsibility is this?
Politicians, decision makers, business leaders
and other professionals are aware that Sri Lanka can no longer
afford to waste the precious innate human potential and also the
increase in number of unwanted dependants. ‘Designing for inclusion’
is the effective way to arrest these colossal wastes and make
everyone ‘meaningful equal partners’ in development.
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