A global centre of learning

Education in Sri Lanka is facing many challenges, and higher education is no exception. The generation of knowledge has become very important in the context of globalisation, purely because of the fact that economic growth of a country is integrally related to the accumulation of knowledge.

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Fein’s moral confusion as Human Rights Watch returns to reality

TamilNet announced, just before midnight on Sunday December 14, that its latest angel of light, Bruce Fein, ‘Counsel for a US Tamil Group’ as he is described, had prepared a 400+ page model indictment against Sri Lankan officials for genocide against Tamils.

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Students set and sit their question papers

Mao Zedong and Mao Tse-tung are the same person. The first is how the Chinese say the name and the second is how the English language once Anglicised it. He was, I think, the first to broach the subject of reforming the system of examinations by permitting students to bring any books or notes when answering question papers.

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