A 15yr old boy dies whilst undergoing Cadet Training at the NCC Training Camp in Rantambe. The actual circumstances of this accident or death have not been made public as yet, but it gives rise to matters that Youth must concern themselves with.In this blog I refer especially to the issues that affect young people in Sri Lanka between the ...
As we all know the Head of the Department of Examinations, within the Ministry of Education and University Grants Commission, had decided to pool the two syllabi of the A levels and issued the Z score based on the old and new syllabus being equivalent. So to simplify, a score of 89 in each amounted to the same for the ...
It is now a fact of life that young people expect representation in elected office, especially in local government. In that regard there are rules within political parties to reserve a certain number of places to young men and women who represent a proportion of the population and who wish to have their opinions represented in an elected body.If a ...
Sri Lanka will shortly increase the percentage of places reserved for women nominees from political parties, for election to the local bodies of the Pradeshiya Sabhas and Municipal Councils. That is a splendid move and a chance for young people, included in the percentage is youth seeking election under 35 as a separate category which is also established with a ...
In all spheres, compromise is often the way to resolve differences. This holds true in marriage and business and other personal activities one engages in with other people. There can be disputes amongst neighbors over trees overhanging a property or of roots coming into the adjoining property cracking the foundation. All these events have to be resolved amicably if we ...
When we refer to youth organizations, fronts, or even the Government’s Youth Services Corps, created by Ranil Wickremasinghe, when he was the Minister of Youth Affairs, the overwhelming bulk of participants, members and delegates are men. Actually for those age groups, as it is for all other age groups, there are more females than males. In that sense we must ...
In the Sri Lankan context, there is a huge gap between what is practically achievable and what is desired. I do not know if it is the foreign factor, where whenever a member of the family is overseas, then riches of material things are seen around the house and it breeds a great desire amongst neighbors for the same. In ...
The Leader of the Opposition, Ranil Wickremasinghe MP stated on Wednesday, 4thJuly in Parliament that if an Amendment was introduced in Parliament, enshrining in the Constitution, the Right to Education as a Fundamental Right, that his party will support the Amendment.It is significant that this extremely important statement received scant attention from the Government benches, perhaps because no one really ...
I have noticed that Sri Lanka youth behave with a sense of entitlement that borders on the ‘not in my back yard syndrome’. For example the Medical Students of the Colombo University are the most vocal against the establishment of the Malabe Medical School. Now why is that? Do they fear competition? Is that the real reason because people who ...
Young guys in Sri Lanka like to join organizations where they get all the credit for the glitter and the face time. I am not including girls here, only because they are the exception and they do not come under this generalization. The young females are generally more responsible and conscientious and there are fewer bull shit artists amongst the ...
That is at least 500,000 students and at least 1 million parents. It is not a simple issue. All these people and future A level students will have concerns about the reliability, credibility and dependability of this method of apportioning a number, which will be used in District cut offs for entry into University in the State System in Sri ...
Young people who are generally intelligent wish to express their individual opinions on a subject. The fault is they are usually unable to listen to the opinions of others which differ from their own. In that sense they tend to be very narrow minded and not open to hearing other opinions, even though at the same time they are fickle ...
I was reading an article about the overwhelming desire, if given half a chance, of youth in Sri Lanka to emigrate, preferably never to return! from the shores of this country. It is a damning indictment of the way the people in power over our history have managed expectations. Basically ZILCH!!(not managed but destroyed it!)Is there any hope left? If ...
I read a speech given my a Mr Wickremage I think his name was the Marketing Director of Ceylon Biscuits Group, who from humble beginnings worked his way to the top of the career ladder and along the way garnered some prestigious international marketing awards to boot.There was a lot of telling advice for youth that I thought relevant enough ...
Taken from a very popularly read article in the Independent newspaper in the UK of 3rd December 1998, which I believe is appropriate for young people to read in 2012. It does not try to judge, just report.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/brilliant-pupils-logical-suicide-1188778.htmlA BRILLIANT schoolboy shot himself in the head after carefully calculating the benefits of life and deciding it was not worth living, an ...
The incessant stream of CV from young people ranging from 18 to 28 for jobs ANY JOBS is a heart wrenching cry for independence by desperate youth who want a living wage. Fortunately for them, they live at home and have no great rush to get into the job market, so they are picky and want jobs that are not ...