Educationist par excellence

In March 1961 Prof J E Jayasuriya was appointed as the Chairman of the First National Education Commission (NEC) which comprised 20 members including Dr C W W Kannangara and L H Mettananda, S Natesan, T Vimalananda, S H Perimpanayagam, D T Devendra, K L V Alagiyawanna and A D V De S Indraratne. The Commission was requested to examine and make a comprehensive review of Ceylon’s entire educational system,

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The Morning Inspection

Have you heard of the ‘Baltagiya’?

Although Hillary Clinton and other big names in the Obama administration as well as certain pundits in the big media houses in that country who presume they can defined the world for all and Sunday feign surprise at the recent political upheavals in Egypt,

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On My Watch

Act Now plays with wrong script on Lanka

Developments in Southern Sudan have prompted the UK-based NGO Act Now to push for a referendum in Sri Lanka on the lines of that in South Sudan for the establishment of a separate Tamil Eelam.

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