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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lks1241" data-source="post: 16776604" data-attributes="member: 510884">By Darshani Wimalasuriya The quality of Sri Lankan university education is declining rapidly.   According to the World ranking Sri Lankan universities are now lower  than the universities of failed states in Africa. Major universities in  Uganda, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe are now in a superior position than the  Sri Lankan universities. Instead of educational quality Sri Lankan  universities are now famous for violence, extremist student politics,  strikes, low productivity, and moral decay. Mr. Navarathna Banda – a senior lecture attached to the Sri  Jayawardhanapura University provides factors that pushed the Sri Lankan  universities in to a deplorable state. According to Mr. Navarathna Banda  over 90 % of Sri Lankan university professors and senior lectures are under qualified and do not have a wider exposure. Majority of these  university teachers are working in the same universities where they  graduated and they do not have any overseas exposure or experience.  Academically speaking their knowledge and experiences are stunted.    Their knowledge is limited and outdated. These university teachers  cannot provide students to face the educational challenges of the 21st century. Over the last 30 years the Sri Lankan universities failed to do any  world class research, conduct any validated scientific study or to do a  notable publication that captured the attention of the international  academia. These failures represent the emptiness that is filled in our  universities. To cover-up these failures Professor Naleen De Silva  recently did an Arsenic research at the Kelaniya University violating  all the international research standards and it became a laughing stock  among the academic community.  Ragging and Violence in the Sri Lankan Universities Unfortunately ragging and violence have become an inseparable part of  the local universities. Ragging involves   harassment, abuse and  humiliation that are aimed at the new students. It is a major form of  human right violation. According to our assumption 100 % of former Sri  Lankan university students have faced hazing -either physical or verbal  abuse as first year students. So far no one could not disprove it and we  challenge anyone to come forward and refute this statement.The award-winning Sri Lankan film and tele-drama actress Yashoda  Wimaladharma reveals that she had to undergo brutal ragging while  studying at the University of Kelaniya and it became an emotional shock for her father Mr. R. L. Wimaladharma who served as a lecturer at the Kelaniya campus.  According to Yashoda Wimaladharma her father could not witness these  merciless harassment to his daughter and he suffered a heart attack.The Student Unions  Sri Lankan Universities have student political groups that are  manipulated by the extremists. When a new batch of students arrives at  the University, they are intimidated and threatened to use physical  ragging by the seniors. Often the new students are not allowed to have a  dialog with the university lecturers, not allowed ask questions at the  lectures, not allowed to take part in the English courses and not  allowed to use the university library by these extreme student unions. In some universities the students are not allowed to drink  beverages like coca cola. This sanction was vigorously implemented at  the University of Colombo and University of Kelaniya.The senior students of the Sri Lankan universities use physical and  sexual harassment to control the newcomers. The Poor State of Sri Lankan Medical FacultiesOne time Sri Lankan medical schools produced knowledgeable doctors  who had international recognition.  Unfortunately this trend has changed  over the past few decades. According to a prominent Sri Lankan medical  doctor who is workings as an associate professor in an American  university, the quality of Sri Lankan medical faculties has come down.  Majority of the   Sri Lankan doctors who graduated in the past few  decades have very poor English knowledge and they are unable to  communicate effectively and professionally. He further says that Sri  Lankan doctors lack attitudinal training, medical ethics and  accountability towards their patients. According to the international  ranking of medical schools many medical schools of the 3rd world countries such as Nigeria, Nepal, India, and Tanzania have beaten the Sri Lankan medical faculties.Sri Lankan Universities are Virtually Dead Sri Lankan Universities are virtually dead says a senior lecturer  attached to the University of Colombo. According to him qualified  professors go to the overseas universities seeking prosperous job  opportunities. Only the old and inefficient academics are trapped in the  local universities. Majority of the Sri Lankan University Professors  and senior lecturers do not want to improve the quality of the local  universities or stop sadistic ragging. They never send their children to  the Sri Lankan Universities. Their children go to the universities in  United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc. These  irresponsible actions have created a huge academic void in the local  universities.Sri Lankan Universities are backward than the African Universities The African Universities are now internationally more recognized than  the Sri Lankan Universities. According to the 2012 world university  ranking Makerere University (Uganda) has come to the 1174 place  demonstrating a superior educational quality than Sri Lankan higher  education institutes.  Ironically Idi Amen’s Uganda has easily defeated  the major universities in Sri Lanka. These Sri Lankan universities now represent a very low  level of international ranking. While Sri Lankan universities struggle with their low quality of education Polytechnic of Namibia has come to the 1319th   place and Sudan’s University of Khartoum to 1394th   place,   University of Nairobi 1435th  , Mansoura University of Egypt  to1685th , University of Ghana 1797th  Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa University 1903rd    , Tanzania’s University of Dar Es Salaam 1977th   and Sudan‘s University of Science & Technology to 2020th  place. Most of these African countries have low literacy rate than Sri  Lanka. But they defeated all our local universities in the international  arena.Need ActionRegrettably Sri Lankan Universities are facing moral and educational  degradation especially in the last four decades. One time Sri Lankan  universities were the shining examples of higher education and academic  leadership. Unfortunately the qualities of education and research work  in the Sri Lankan universities have gone down drastically. Today Sri  Lankan universities are lagging behind. According to the 2012 World  University Ranking Sri Lankan universities have a lower position and  some African countries with low literacy rate than Sri Lanka have far  more better educational ranking than the Sri Lankan Universities.Education is not a privilege. It is a human right. Higher education is  the only hope and salvation to the Sri Lankans and do not let anyone to  destroy it.Full Story on <a href="http://colombogazette.com/2013/12/12/sri-lankan-universities-falling-apart/" target="_blank">http://colombogazette.com/2013/12/12/sri-lankan-universities-falling-apart/</a><a href="http://colombogazette.com/2013/12/12/sri-lankan-universities-falling-apart/" target="_blank">2014 Sri Lankan University Ranking</a><a href="http://colombogazette.com/2013/12/12/sri-lankan-universities-falling-apart/" target="_blank"></a><img src="http://i.imgur.com/A153OyA.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Earlier World rankings: 2013 July <a href="http://studentlanka.com/2013/08/27/top-best-universities-in-sri-lanka-according-to-webometrics-world-ranking-2013-july/" target="_blank">http://studentlanka.com/2013/08/27/top-best-universities-in-sri-lanka-according-to-webometrics-world-ranking-2013-july/</a>   <a href="http://studentlanka.com/author/admin/" target="_blank">Hiran</a> University Senior Lecturer at University of Sri Jayewardenepra, Sri LankaComments<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">  Hiran February 16, 2014 at 11:13 pm - World  class university should concentrate on Teaching and Research. That is  why all World University Ranking systems give major emphasis on  Research. There are other rankings systems such as QS ranking, Times  Higher Education etc. In those rankings none of the Sri Lankan  universities got any place.</li> </ol>  <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/dull.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":dull:" title="Dull    :dull:" data-shortname=":dull:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/dull.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":dull:" title="Dull    :dull:" data-shortname=":dull:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/dull.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":dull:" title="Dull    :dull:" data-shortname=":dull:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/dull.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":dull:" title="Dull    :dull:" data-shortname=":dull:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/dull.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":dull:" title="Dull    :dull:" data-shortname=":dull:" />EDIT : To everyone who says rankings are all about research!<img src="http://i.imgur.com/Fv6IgKo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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