විශ්ව විද්‍යාල යනු කුමක් ද?

[obama2]

විශ්ව විද්‍යාල යනු කුමක් ද?

විශ්ව විද්‍යාල යනු කුමක් ද?

Posted: 7:09 pm, January 27, 2014

මේවන විට ලංකාව වැනි රටක ඔබ කැමති බුද්ධිමතෙකු වීමට ද?

නැතහොත් සල්ලිකාරයෙකු වීමට ද?යන ප්‍රශ්ණය ඇසුවහොත් බහුතරය සල්ලිකාරයෙකු වීමේ වරණය තෝරා ගනු ඇත. එසේ වන්නේ සිංහල මිනිසාගේ ආධ්‍යාත්මික ලෝකය ධනවාදී වීම නිසාය. දෘෂ්‍යමාණය කෙතරම් ධනවාදයට විරුද්ධ වුවත් බහුතරයක් දෙනා දේවාලවලට,පන්සල් වලට,ගොස් ප්‍රාර්ථනා කරන්නේ අනාගතයේ දී තමාට හෝ තම පවුලට සරු වේවා යන්නය.


ජේ.ආර් විසින් ආර්ථිකය විවෘත කළ පසු ඇති වූ වඩාත්ම විවාද සම්පන්න සදාචාරාත්මක හැරවුම් ලක්ෂ්‍යය වූයේ මධ්‍යම-පාන්තිකයන් අපරාධ කිරීමට සෘජු ලෙස දායක වීමයි. 1977 න් පසු සිංහල මැද පාන්තිකයන් හොරකම් කිරීම විවෘතව ආරම්භ කරනු ලැබුවේ කොල්ලුපිටිය නගරයේ ගාලු පාරට මායිම,එවකට පැවති තීරුබදු රහිත සාප්පු සංකීරණයෙනි. අද වන විට හෙරොයින් කන්ටේනර් පිටින් ගෙන්වීමට තරම් මධ්‍යම-පාන්තිකයන් එඩිතර වී ඇත. බැරෑරුම් ලෙස ලංකාවේ මිනිසුන් බුද්ධිමත් වීම අතහැර දමා අපරාධ හරහා සල්ලිකාරයන් වීම ප්‍රමිතියක් දක්වා වර්ධනය කර ඇත. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ බලයට පැමිණීමත් සමග අපරාධ කොට සල්ලි සෙවීම රාජ්‍යෙය් මතවාදය දක්වා සංවර්ධනය වී ඇත. මෙම තත්ත්වය තුළ ලංකාවේ විශ්ව විද්‍යාල වලට ලැබී ඇති ලෝක මට්ටමේ නිර්නායකයන් පහත වගුවේ ඇත. එබැවින් ලංකාවේ දී සිහිය ඇති කිසිවකු ඇකඩමික් වීමට තවදුරටත් උත්සහ කරයිද?





ශ්‍රී ලංකා පෙරටුගාමී පක්ෂය
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[BINGU_PUTHA]

මම ලංකාවේ වගේම පිටරට university වලින් ඉගෙන ගත්තු කෙනෙක්. මේ මගේ අදහස. university වර්ගීකරණය කරන නිර්ණායක මොනවද?

timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking/region/asia/methodology

(1) Teaching: the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score)

මම දන්නේ engineering. මෙහෙයි(canadawe) ලංකාවේ අද්‍යාපනය (undergraduate) ලොකු වෙනසක් නැහැ.

(2) Research: volume, income and reputation (worth 30 per cent)
මගුලක් කතා කරනවා.
(3) Citations: research influence (worth 30 per cent)
මගුලක් කතා කරනවා.
(4)Industry income: innovation (worth 2.5 per cent)
මගුලක් කතා කරනවා.
(5) International outlook: staff, students and research (worth 7.5 per cent).
මම කවදාවත් International student කෙනෙක් ලංකාවේ දැකල නැහැ.

There is a huge difference between Sri Lanka Universities and here in terms of research. Here professors are highly encouraged to do research. In fact some excellent profs are removed from teaching undergraduate and they are full time doing research and development. The research is a difficult thing. You have to first study the current knowledge of the world and add top of that. In SL, we did not have access to even IEEE publications those days. Then how to we know that our research is valid or already done by others?

Government and industry fund millions of dollers to research. Even the small companies here support few PhDs and Mscs and lot of collaborations with university. Their students come and work here. In SL, the collaboration between industry and university is very small.

In SL, those days profs hardly earning money. Even final year graduates earn more money than profs as their first salary. Some profs do lot of other business (not related to their work). Some do tuition. Some migrate. Some came to university just to teach and go home. It is a extremely frustrated situation. I think now their salary is ok.

 

[BINGU_PUTHA]

I do not think that there is a issue with undergraduate courses from SL universities (at least for engineering).
The low rank is because of lack of international level research. Unfortunately the ranking is mainly based on that.
Some think that University is a place where merely professionals are developed like a factory. But it is not true. It is all about research and the new knowledge generated.
The industry can not survive without university. In fact here most of the products are originally developed at university (e.g. Genetically modified Canola). The university can not survive without industry (funding and collaboration). We have seen that a strong advanced industry pave the way to to good reputed universities.

 

[Dewrangi]

I do not think that there is a issue with undergraduate courses from SL universities (at least for engineering).
The low rank is because of lack of international level research. Unfortunately the ranking is mainly based on that.
.

It is not that we are incapable of doing international level research in SL, the problem is lack of funding. I did my PhD research in SL, which took me 7 years to complete, because, I had to struggle with funding. I published two papers from SL research in peer reviewed journals, and my research work was internationally qualified, which is why I am now working in US. We have some smart Profs (not all of them) in SL, who can guide students for international level research. So, it has to be the SL government, which should make more effort to put more money in research. But, with this corrupted situation, I don't think it is going to happen in near future. Still, our National Research Council (NRC), has a program, where they select publications from SL scientists, according scientific citation index, and confer presidents awards those scientists. This motivates young undergrads who wish to pursue research in SL. National Science Foundation and NRC is also funding PhDs, post-doctoral fellows and scientists, for research in SL. But, the amount of funding is negligible, when it compares to what we spend here in US.

On the other hand, it is also very hard to survive in our academic system due to the politics. They don't let you to be innovative, instead have to say "yes boss", if you want to survive. From the grant money, some Dr's travel around the world for all kind of workshops, seminars, meetings, etc, and sometimes, they use money for other personnel purposes. If we want to do research in SL, we have to tolerate all this shit, on top of not having a good salary.

Also, sometimes, your ideas could be stolen, and somebody else will be doing it before you (this is everywhere in the world). The trustworthiness of the data generated from research work is always skeptical. What we call international quality research that is being done in all over the world, sometimes is of no quality and fake. When you look from outside, it is a big image, But when you are really into it, you can see both the shit and the good. The rest of the rich world just look down on developing countries like us, assuming that we cannot be smart like them. But, the fact is, rich countries appears to be smart to the rest of the world, not because that they are always really smart, but they have millions of dollars to compete and to cover up.

 

[hancok]

Mamanam kiyanne ape campus wala eunta ekkenekra eka research paper ekak dana eka aniwarya karanna one. Or eeka gpa eka athulata daanna one. Bari nane katawath

 

[BruceWayne92]

මේකටත් ගිහින් බලන්නකෝ .


http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1595090

 

[BINGU_PUTHA]

It is not that we are incapable of doing international level research in SL, the problem is lack of funding. I did my PhD research in SL, which took me 7 years to complete, because, I had to struggle with funding. I published two papers from SL research in peer reviewed journals, and my research work was internationally qualified, which is why I am now working in US. We have some smart Profs (not all of them) in SL, who can guide students for international level research. So, it has to be the SL government, which should make more effort to put more money in research. But, with this corrupted situation, I don't think it is going to happen in near future. Still, our National Research Council (NRC), has a program, where they select publications from SL scientists, according scientific citation index, and confer presidents awards those scientists. This motivates young undergrads who wish to pursue research in SL. National Science Foundation and NRC is also funding PhDs, post-doctoral fellows and scientists, for research in SL. But, the amount of funding is negligible, when it compares to what we spend here in US.

On the other hand, it is also very hard to survive in our academic system due to the politics. They don't let you to be innovative, instead have to say "yes boss", if you want to survive. From the grant money, some Dr's travel around the world for all kind of workshops, seminars, meetings, etc, and sometimes, they use money for other personnel purposes. If we want to do research in SL, we have to tolerate all this shit, on top of not having a good salary.

Also, sometimes, your ideas could be stolen, and somebody else will be doing it before you (this is everywhere in the world). The trustworthiness of the data generated from research work is always skeptical. What we call international quality research that is being done in all over the world, sometimes is of no quality and fake. When you look from outside, it is a big image, But when you are really into it, you can see both the shit and the good. The rest of the rich world just look down on developing countries like us, assuming that we cannot be smart like them. But, the fact is, rich countries appears to be smart to the rest of the world, not because that they are always really smart, but they have millions of dollars to compete and to cover up.

Agreed brother. I did not say that SL researchers are incapable of doing that. In SL, there are some profs doing good job even with very small funding and facilities. Unfortunately best of them are offered 10 times or more salary + research funding + benefits from other countries. In our time, several profs went to other countries. Some decide to stay because of family connections,love to serve country and other reasons. At one time, we were afraid that there may not be profs to teach us. The situation was very bad.

It is easy to blame SL universities that the ranking is low, but very little try to understand why it happened and try to improve the situation.

In fact, here many professors are from Asian countries including SL. They are doing many innovative things, patents, research papers etc.

 

[MeGusta]

All are useless ban be that local or international...you are nothing but a slave for the rest of your life...that's how i see it...the ones who have lot of money are the ones who stick out from these degree life cycle...

 

[BINGU_PUTHA]

All are useless ban be that local or international...you are nothing but a slave for the rest of your life...that's how i see it...the ones who have lot of money are the ones who stick out from these degree life cycle...

It depends of the attitude. Money is not everything.

 

[dileeshakr]

මචෝ මොකෙන් ගත්තත් උපාධිය උපාධියමයි. වැදගත් වෙන්නේ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය නෙවේ. ලබාගත් දැනුම/අත්දැකීම්/පළපුරුදු අවසානයේදී වැදගත් වෙන්නේ. අනික මචන් හිතන්න එපා රජයේ විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ගියාම මුළු ජිවීතේම දිනුම් කියල. මතක තියාගන්න ඔතනට ගියේ මොකක් කරන්නද කියලා. ගොඩක් රජයේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ගිය කට්ටිය පුද්ගලික විශ්වවිද්‍යාල විවේචනය කරනවා හරි නෑ ඒවාට ගිහින් ඉන්නේ A/L පාස් වෙන්නවත් බැරි එවුන් කියල අරක මේක කියල. එහෙම කියන එක අසාධාරණයි. මොකද එක උදාහරනයක් විදියට සමහර අය O/L fail වෙනවා හොඳටම එත් A/L හිතාගන්නවත් බැරි විදියට pass වෙනවා. සමහරු O/L pass වෙනවා උපරිමෙන්. එත් A/L fail වෙනවා. මතක තියාගන්න ඒ දේවල්.. දැන් තරඟකාරීත්වය ගොඩක් වැඩි. කොහේ ගියත් තමන්ගේ වැඩේ හරියට කරගන්න. යාළුවො එක්ක ආතල් ගන්න ගමන් ඉගෙනීමට මුල් තැන දීල කරගනින්.

ජය වේවා.!

 

[vishtcp]

I've learned and worked in University of Moratuwa. Can't agree with some of the facts. The quality of education & research is way higher than private uni's here..

Also we are earning a lot by doing consultancy to organizations and many foreign researchers study here...

 

[BINGU_PUTHA]

මචෝ මොකෙන් ගත්තත් උපාධිය උපාධියමයි. වැදගත් වෙන්නේ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය නෙවේ. ලබාගත් දැනුම/අත්දැකීම්/පළපුරුදු අවසානයේදී වැදගත් වෙන්නේ. අනික මචන් හිතන්න එපා රජයේ විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ගියාම මුළු ජිවීතේම දිනුම් කියල. මතක තියාගන්න ඔතනට ගියේ මොකක් කරන්නද කියලා. ගොඩක් රජයේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාල ගිය කට්ටිය පුද්ගලික විශ්වවිද්‍යාල විවේචනය කරනවා හරි නෑ ඒවාට ගිහින් ඉන්නේ A/L පාස් වෙන්නවත් බැරි එවුන් කියල අරක මේක කියල. එහෙම කියන එක අසාධාරණයි. මොකද එක උදාහරනයක් විදියට සමහර අය O/L fail වෙනවා හොඳටම එත් A/L හිතාගන්නවත් බැරි විදියට pass වෙනවා. සමහරු O/L pass වෙනවා උපරිමෙන්. එත් A/L fail වෙනවා. මතක තියාගන්න ඒ දේවල්.. දැන් තරඟකාරීත්වය ගොඩක් වැඩි. කොහේ ගියත් තමන්ගේ වැඩේ හරියට කරගන්න. යාළුවො එක්ක ආතල් ගන්න ගමන් ඉගෙනීමට මුල් තැන දීල කරගනින්.

ජය වේවා.!

Thanks for the comment. We just discuss here why ranks of gov. universities are low.

I think nobody can disagree with standard private universities. If fact, there are many private universities in the world.

 

[BINGU_PUTHA]

I've learned and worked in University of Moratuwa. Can't agree with some of the facts. The quality of education & research is way higher than private uni's here..

Also we are earning a lot by doing consultancy to organizations and many foreign researchers study here...

Lets forget about private universities. It is out of topic.

I have no question with the undergraduate degree. Also some profs doing great research work. we appreciate that.

However in our time, we did not have access to publications such as IEEE /IEE. The industry and university relationship is poor compared to overseas universities.

How many Phds, Msc are funded by industry? In out time, none.

 

[Jack_Sparrow]

Lets forget about private universities. It is out of topic.

I have no question with the undergraduate degree. Also some profs doing great research work. we appreciate that.

However in our time, we did not have access to publications such as IEEE /IEE. The industry and university relationship is poor compared to overseas universities.

How many Phds, Msc are funded by industry? In out time, none.

Since i am doing Masters at SLIIT, in here there is a seperate login for IEE, where we can contact a staff person and specifically mention the research paper we want they will provide it. I hope same facility should be available at Mora UCSC but less people use them.

In Sri lanka main problem is, people read for degrees masters phds to add those as titles for them and expect other benefits in career. My advice is not to do a master in that mind set, do a master program to do a good research actually its the main component of any Msc.. you may do Msc in SLIIT Mora or UCSC or even at abroad but your research determines effectiveness of your professional qualification

 

[Tom Riddle]

At mora in our time we did have the facility to many of the research papers from IEEEXplore.

 

[luxmen]

Lankave nam University name eka promote karanava. Namuth Degree holder a tharamata arthavath venne naha. Lankave university yanu , job illa higa kamata purudu kirimai. Thaman visin projects[industries] patan ganimata thiyena athma sakkthiya[kondha], vinasa kirimai.

 

[Sharma01]

මම දකින්නෙ වෙන රටවලයි ලංකාවෙ කැම්පස් වලයි වෙනස විදිහට හේතු හුගක් බලපානව. ලංකාවෙ කැම්පස් වල වැඩ අඩුයි. වෙන රටවල වැඩ කරල රස්සාවලුත් කරන්න ඕන සල්ලි හොයා ගන්න. මෙහෙ එවුන් ඒ වෙනුවට බෝඩ් උස්සන් පිකට් කරනව, රැග් කරනව. මන් හිතන්නෙ මෙහෙ ළමයින්ට stress එකකුත් නෑ. ඒත් වෙන රටවල කැම්පස්වල හුගක් වැඩ තියනව. Exam පාස් කරන්න අමාරුයි දියුණු රටවල කැම්පස් වල.

 

[GuneBhai]

ugathek una nan thama hoda

 

[GuneBhai]

මම දකින්නෙ වෙන රටවලයි ලංකාවෙ කැම්පස් වලයි වෙනස විදිහට හේතු හුගක් බලපානව. ලංකාවෙ කැම්පස් වල වැඩ අඩුයි. වෙන රටවල වැඩ කරල රස්සාවලුත් කරන්න ඕන සල්ලි හොයා ගන්න. මෙහෙ එවුන් ඒ වෙනුවට බෝඩ් උස්සන් පිකට් කරනව, රැග් කරනව. මන් හිතන්නෙ මෙහෙ ළමයින්ට stress එකකුත් නෑ. ඒත් වෙන රටවල කැම්පස්වල හුගක් වැඩ තියනව. Exam පාස් කරන්න අමාරුයි දියුණු රටවල කැම්පස් වල.

mehe gotta alluwamath exam pass wenna puluwan campus eke.... moona balalane lakunu denne....

 

[Sharma01]

mehe gotta alluwamath exam pass wenna puluwan campus eke.... moona balalane lakunu denne....

ඔව් බන් මෙහෙ කැම්පස් වල උන් මෙලෝ වැඩක් කරන්නෙ නෑ කම්මැලිකමට ඉන්නව විතරයි. පිටරටවල හුගක් අමාරුයි කැම්පස් ජීවිතේ.