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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tom Riddle" data-source="post: 16780065" data-attributes="member: 47610">I am a graduate from the University of Moratuwa, so I will focus on the quality of education at my university.I prefer to focus on stuff that I actually have an intimate understanding about. 1. I have read the whole story quite a while ago when this incompetent piece of writing was getting much more attention than it deserved. 2. "This" may not be all about rankings. I find it amusing that you feel that any person who responds to the thread needs to address each and every 'issue' raised by either you or the article. I have no bones to pick regarding much of what has been said, hence the lack of a response. My time, also, is a limited and valuable (to me!) resource. 3. This Navaratne Bandara is just one person. That's one heck of a sampling bias. Do you know what his agenda is, how knowledgeable he is, what the majority of academics actually think? I know many other university academics who would claim that uni academics are worldly, well versed in their areas and qualified. At least in my university there are many academics who have pursued their doctorates in leading universities in the world (Ex - UIUC, UCSB, UC Davis, U of Tokyo, UBC etc.) At least to me, they seem to be quite over qualified to be academics in Sri Lanka. 4. Even in the link that you have given 60% of the marks are given to research. Academic reputation is built on research. Citations are built on research. 5. I did not directly say in my response that undergrads get a quality education. I just said that you cannot infer a causal relationship between Rankings and undergrad education quality. You should be concerned about rankings primarily if you are planning on doing a research degree. That being said, i. Students from my university consistently are placed in top universities in the world for their post graduate studies (The best students get into places like MIT)ii. Students from my university consistently perform well in international competitions (See - IEEEXtreme, Google Summer of Code, Mondialogo Engineering award etc). iii. Graduates from my university have built cool stuff (ex - the stuff being done at WSO2, MIT or even Virtusa)iv. I myself have been at a highly ranked university and I didn't see a huge gap between the capabilities of the students. </blockquote>

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