Recently, I read this post about Richard Stallman’s (RMS) visit to India. And read more about RMS’s visit impacted India. I read this very, very interesting thing that happened in Kerala. An excerpt from wikipedia: In August 2006 at his meetings with the government of the Indian State of Kerala, he persuaded officials to discard proprietary software, such as Microsoft’s, at state-run schools. ...

Clearly the government of Sri Lanka is now treating university education as a commodity, universities as corporate entities and the academic administrators of those universities (VCs, DVCs, Deans ect.) as business managers. The government expects only that university administrators fall in line with their agenda. To this end, the state expects university administrators to: 1. Ensure faculties that can be controlled at will ...

Suranga Connecting From Sydney Yesterday, I had the opportunity of being the coordinator of what could be the first ever live web-based lecture at the faculty of management, of the Sri Jayawardenepura University (I may be wrong to say this is the first, but you are free to correct me in the comments section). It was a live lecture ...

Today one of my mates had put up and FB status saying ‘Sri Lanka Rugby Fan: Work it! Work it! Support him! Aiyo….” This admirably sums up a large volume of helpful suggestions from the sidelines, especially at school games, when all the u13ers mothers turn coach. To say nothing of the fathers. I was on air with Shaq on ...

The State of the Free Education System in Sri Lanka: Confessions of a Disgruntled Student (via http://www.groundviews.org) Image courtesy The Nation I am one of the 243,876 lucky students who sat for the Advanced Level Examinations in 2011. It has been almost one-and-a-half-years since then, and I received my university registration form only yesterday (6 – 4 – 2012). ...

As I mentioned earlier, we are trying to provide a computer lab with 5 computers and other necessary equipments to Sagalapura College, Bingathalawa, Kandapola which is a rural college in Walapane education zone in Nuwara Eliya district, Our target is to provide them with 5 new assembled computers. Mr. Athula Herath who is attached to the Education Office, Central ...

Do you know what it means? Most pejoratives have origins in completely acceptable descriptive words. ‘Negro’ comes from the Latin ‘Niger‘ which means black, ‘Paki’ is shortened from ‘Pakistani’. Terms like Chinaman, Coolie are also derived from relatively innocent descriptive origins. They get their pejorative connotations after being repeatedly used in an insulting manner.  Other names originate directly from a desire to put down ...

Do you know what it means? Most pejoratives have origins in completely acceptable descriptive words. ‘Negro’ comes from the Latin ‘Niger‘ which means black, ‘Paki’ is shortened from ‘Pakistani’. Terms like Chinaman, Coolie are also derived from relatively innocent descriptive origins. They get their pejorative connotations after being repeatedly used in an insulting manner.  Other names originate directly from a desire to put down ...

(I have been tweeting and Facebooking endlessly about my undergraduate law thesis which is on media and criminal law. Essentially I look at how the media has influenced/reported upon famous cases in Sri Lanka, UK and USA and how this has affected developments in law. It's turning out to be fascination and I am really enjoying it - so I ...

A media revolution has made media more democratic, with power shifting from big corporate to individuals through social media. However it is not just about amassing many fans, but driving the right fans to make the right decision, thereby boosting the organizational goal.Social media is one of the unavoidable thing nowadays. In personal life or business life every one using ...

This is one story which i read & thought to share since it has a good meaning....One day, the farmer's horse ran away, and all the neighbors gathered in the evening and said ‘that’s too bad.’ He said ‘maybe.’ Next day, the horse came back and brought with it seven wild horses. ‘Wow!’ they said, ‘Aren’t you lucky!’ He said ...

Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, peace educator and activist and co-laureate along with late Prof. Izzat Gazzawi of the 2001 Sakharov Prize for Human Rights and the Freedom of Speech awarded by the European parliament. Peled-Elhanan has translated Albert Memmi‘s Le racisme (1982) and Marguerite Duras‘ Écrire (1993) into ...

St Sebastian GS Moratuwa is well known for discipline and education Principal Mrs. Chandra WickranasingheSt. Sebastian’s Girls School Moratuwa is a prominent school in the Moratuwa Division and over 750 students who belong to multi ethnic and multi religions are having their education from Grade one to Ordinary Level at this school. The school is well known for its ...

Image courtesy The Nation I am one of the 243,876 lucky students who sat for the Advanced Level Examinations in 2011. It has been almost one-and-a-half-years since then, and I received my university registration form only yesterday (6 – 4 – 2012). I was privileged enough to receive A/L results four times in the space of ten months. For ...

| I am one of the 243,876 lucky students who sat for the Advanced Level Examinations in 2011. It has been almost one-and-a-half-years since then, and I received my university registration form only yesterday (6 – 4 – 2012). I was privileged enough to receive A/L results four times in the space of ten months. For this, I am eternally ...

The attack on contributions to English education for rural students Why Mr Weerawansa is again on the rampage about me I have no idea. I was in Singapore last week when a couple of my former students sent me messages that I had been attacked on Swarnavahini by Wimal Weerawansa. It seems he claimed I had made some reforms to ...

Mathematical Excursions To Architecture (Repost) The world's greatest buildings provide a window on great math and great design. By: Alexander J. Hahn, Inside Science Minds Guest Columnist Mathematics and architecture are two sides of the same golden coin.On the one side is mathematics, and its capacity to enhance the understanding of architecture, both aesthetic aspects such as symmetry and proportion, ...

Two-year colleges can help students improve English skills, save money, and adapt to U.S. education.American community colleges offer international students a cheaper entry point into their higher education pursuits via low tuition rates on freshman and sophomore level classes, often with the added bonus of an easier transition to U.S.-style academics, experts say. Students then transfer to four-year schools to ...