Friday, September 6, 2013

Private Tuition Class Sri Lanka ban on Poya days still in effect

Private Tuition Class Sri Lanka Students Reading Sithmina
The decision was taken to ban conducting tuition classes on Full Moon Poya Days and Sundays in Kegalle and Ratnapura districts to direct the future generation to create a spiritual society. It is not to inconvenience a selected group, said Sabaragamuwa Chief Minister Mahipala Herath. He said so addressing a meeting of the heads of Dhamma Schools in the Ratnapura district at the Sabaragamu Provincial auditorium recently.
He said the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council unanimously passed this motion and gazetted as a Provincial Law.
It still remains unchanged. He added that the Provincial Council reached this decision as Principals of around 630 Dhamma Schools in the Ratnapura district made a request to ban tuition classes on Sundays and Poya days.
Source - DailyNews
ඉරිදා පෞද්ගලික පන්ති පැවැත්වීම නීති ගෙනවිත් එය නතර කලහොත් ආණ්ඩුව පෙරළා දමන බව ප්රකට පෞද්ගලික උපකාරක පන්තු ගුරුවරයකු වන උපුල් සාන්ත සන්නස්ගල මහතා ප්රකාශ කරයි. මවුබිම පුවත්පත සමග සම්මුඛ සාකච්චාවකට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු මේ බව ප්රකාශ කර තිබේ. එසේ වුවහොත් දෙමව්පියන් තම දරුවන් දහම් පාසලට යැවීම කෙසේ වෙතත් පන්සලට දෙන දානයදම් නවතා දමනු ඇතැයි ඔහු ප්රකාශ කරයි.
රටේ අපචාර හා දුරාචාර වැඩිපුර සිදුවන්නේ පෞද්ගලික පන්ති තුල නොව  ආගමික ස්ථානවලදී බව පවසන සන්නස්ගල මහතා පෞද්ගලික පන්ති නැවැත්වීම වෙනුවට හැකිනම් ඒවා නවත්වන ලෙඩ අභියෝග කරයි. එහිදී අදහස් පලකරන ඔහු ඇතැමෙක් විශ්වාස කරන්න පුළුවන් දහම් පාසල් ගියහම දරුවෙක් හදාගන්න පුළුවන්. දරුවාගේ අනාගතය යහපත් කරගන්න පුළුවන්. දරුවාගේ ජීවිතයෙ සාරධර්ම ටික ගොඩනඟාගන්න පුළුවන් කියලා.ඇතැම් කෙනෙක් හිතන්න පුළුවන් දරුවා දහම් පාසල් ගියහම විනාශ වෙනවා කියලා. මම උදාහරණයක් කියන්නම්. ලංකාවේ සමහර ආගමික ස්ථාන තියෙනවා. පාතාල මධ්යස්ථාන. වගේ දහම් පාසලකට යැව්වොත් එල්.ටී.ටී.. ත්රස්තවාදියෙක් වගේ දරුවෙක් හදාගන්න පුළුවන්.
ලංකාවේ ළමා අපචාර, ළමා දූෂණ වැඩිපුරම සිද්ධ වෙලා තියෙන්නේ ටියුෂන් පන්තිවලද ඉස්කෝලවලද මේ දෙකේම නෙවෙයි.පූජනීය ස්ථානවල. ඒක නිසා ටියුෂන් පන්තියට, පාසලට, පොලිසියට, හමුදා කඳවුරට වැඩිය නරක තැනක් විදියට පූජනීය ස්ථාන හඳුන්වන්න පුළුවන් ඉඩකඩක් වර්තමානයේ අපේ රටේ නිර්මාණය වෙලා තියෙනවා. මේ හදන්නේ මේ රට ආසියාවේ අධ්යාපන කේන්ද්රස්ථානය කරන්න නෙවෙයි ආසියාවේ ආගමික ගුබ්බෑයම කරන්න. “  යනුවෙන් අදහස් පළ කර තිබේ.
උපුල් සාන්ත සන්නස්ගල මහතා පසුගිය වාරයේ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ සබරගමුව පළාත් මහ ඇමතිධූරයට තරඟ කරන බව පවසා පසුව එයින් ඉවත්ව පසුබැස ගියේය.එසේම මෙරට තුල මහත් ආන්දෝලනයට ලක් වූ තනි තටුවෙන් පියාඹන්නසිනමාපටය නිෂ්පාදනය කලේද සන්නස්ගල මහතාය.
- යටියන ප්රදීප් කුමාර
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

IUSF organized Protests over private universities bill

Several students’ unions in Sri Lanka say the students' movements in the country would oppose moves by the Sri Lanka government to re-introduce the private universities bill.
Sri Lanka government has decided to grant 15 years tax holidays via special gazette notice to set up a British Central Lancashire University (Uclan Sri Lanka)  in Meerigama
Sri Lanka major students union Inter University Students’ Federation IUSF (Anthare) has organized several protests in front of Universities against the government special Gazette notice which provided tax holidays for foreign Campus. Students of Peradeniya, Rajarata ,Ruhuna & Visual Performing arts universities were joined with these protests
Meanwhile National Organizer of the Socialist Students Union (SSU), Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa issuing a statement has said that the government is attempting to reintroduce the 'private universities bill' that was temporarily withdrawn due to objections from university students and lecturers.
Dr. Jayatissa noted that the latest attempt is to further legalize the establishment of private universities through the extra-special gazette notification no. 1824/21 issued on 22nd August.
The SSU in March this year said the Higher Education Ministry had compiled such a document and had sent it to the Legal Draftsman's Department.
"The relevant document had 36 clauses and the gazette notification was issued removing only the 9th clause which stated that 'the institute that applies to present degrees should make payments to a special authority in the Ministry of Higher Education'," Dr. Jayatissa noted.
"The University Grants Commission (UGC) established under University Act 16 of 1978 has been authorized supervision, inspection and regulation of all higher education institutions in the country. Even President J.R. Jayewardene, who first attempted to sell education by introducing free economy to the country, couldn't completely abolish independence of the UGC. 
Attempts were made to establish private medical colleges during the periods of JR Jayewardene and Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga by wriggling through loopholes that existed in the existing laws. Those governments were not able to weaken the University Act or the UGC. However, it seems that the Mahinda Rajapaksa government is determined to begin private universities," Dr. Jayatissa added.

The SSU called on the public to rally with Sri Lankan students' movement to prevent the privatization of the country's education sector.

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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Uclan a Foreign Campus set up in Sri Lanka

Britain's Central Lancashire University Uclan Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka government has decided to grant 15 years tax holidays to set up a British Central Lancashire University (Uclan Sri Lanka)  in Meerigama.


An extraordinary gazette was tabled in parliament to grant a 15 year tax amnesty to a British university that is planning to establish a branch in Sri Lanka.
Britain's Central Lancashire University (Uclan Sri Lanka) has agreed to establish an affiliate university in Meerigama in the Gampaha district.
The gazette has been compiled by the Minister of Investment Promotion Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena.
According to the gazette notification, the university has been freed from all the taxes that come under the Inland Revenue Act. The university has been granted an array of more tax reliefs under the gazette notification.
Central Lancashire University authorities signed the agreement to establish the university on December 13, 2012.
The university will be established under the 1978 No. 16 University Act.

Sources say that the hair to the throne of Britain Prince Charles will lay the foundation stone for the university when he visits Sri Lanka for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be held in November.

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2013 G.C.E. Ordinary Level examinations (O/L Exam) will be held from December 10 to 20, said Sri Lankan Commissioner General of Examinations, W.M.N.J. Pushpakumara.
He said that 384,000 school applicants and 196,100 private applicants will sit for the examination this year, which will be held at 4,312 centers. The O/L exam consists of 48 individual subjects.2013 O/L Exam Time table will be released to www.doenets.lk/exam/  Web site .

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