I graduated in 1995 from Colombo uni Science Faculty. Almost every lecturer had a Phd from a prestigious university in the world. This criterion was unmatched in the faculties in the best uni in the world. 100 percent phd tutors are very rare even in Harvard. The Phds were mostly from UK or USA prestigious universities. The exam standard was very good. Even few who joined uni were of good quality. I do not know the present standard. But I admit that our research component is low in curriculum.
Since we did not go for ranking till late, there is lot to catch, but do not go only by ranking. We need competition among the universities then only the standard and ranking may improve. Even in US the best universities are private and state universities are not so. In UK it is different their universities are big money spinners and ranking is very important to attract foreign students. Even in UK university education is almost free the residents pay only a very small amount and the money comes from foreign students as their fees are more than 10 times of a local!
Even under our free education system there is room to make money and to create competition if the government desire to do so. But allowing third grade foreign universities to open branches and degrading our own universities harping the low ranking is surely not the way to improve
Since we did not go for ranking till late, there is lot to catch, but do not go only by ranking. We need competition among the universities then only the standard and ranking may improve. Even in US the best universities are private and state universities are not so. In UK it is different their universities are big money spinners and ranking is very important to attract foreign students. Even in UK university education is almost free the residents pay only a very small amount and the money comes from foreign students as their fees are more than 10 times of a local!
Even under our free education system there is room to make money and to create competition if the government desire to do so. But allowing third grade foreign universities to open branches and degrading our own universities harping the low ranking is surely not the way to improve
but unfortunately most of the students who go to gov universities and also A/L students these days don't see this because they are distracted from so many other things and also they are almost blind since A/L days from this so called mystery 'gov universities are one of the best universities in the world and anyone who gets there will have a super life' 
what to do 
They should stop barking themselves and start work towards the sake of gov universities as well as future Sri Lankan students...... 
