Sri Lanka’s Education Mafia

If the writer thinks Rs 51, 000, the salary of a probationary lecturer, is such an astronomical amount, she has clearly lost touch with reality. Remember, it is usually the best few from each batch who are ideally to be recruited as staff members. So it is not the envy of others in the state sector, but the ridicule of one’s contemporaries that such staff members have to endure.

DGD

Tenure system MUST come into Universities to weed out the rotten eggs. Payment for marking answer scripts of their own students has to be stopped right-away. Evaluation by students, peer groups and higher impartial authorities HAS to be introduced into the university system. Re-scrutiny of answer scripts whenever a student thinks he/she is in doubt about the scores/ grades awarded (even for payment of a fee) MUST be permitted as this is an area where vindictive teachers’ pay out grudges on their students as well as allow favouritism to occur. Re-scrutiny is permitted at OLs & ALs and even in schools teachers are supposed to show the answer scripts to the students as it is a form of reinforcement and feedback. Once these conditions are introduced - then let the academics make a noise about demands for higher pay & other perks.

S.WARUSAWITHANA

I totally agree with the comments of Ms. Shenali Waduge. University academics too are responsible for the present pathetic state of our universities. Many of them play politics and engage in virulent political activities at the expense of university education. This is a fact which they cannot deny.

ANANDAD