Privatisation from within ‘Free Education’: Tuition Classes in Anuradhapura

Amali Waidyasekera

The school attendance of students facing national level examinations such as Ordinary and Advanced Level, drastically drops closer to the respective examinations according to the National Education Research and Evaluation Centre (NEREC) (2004), This seemingly counter-intuitive tendency is explained by tuition classes that have come to not only supplement, but also substitute for, school education.… Continue reading Privatisation from within ‘Free Education’: Tuition Classes in Anuradhapura

Amali Waidyasekera

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On the Edge: University Education in Sri Lanka by Kaushalya Perera

At the COP-28 Climate Change Conference in Dubai in December 2023, Ranil Wickremesinghe announced the establishment of a Climate Change University in Sri Lanka. In the 2024 Budget Speech, Wickremesinghe also promised to establish eight new State universities. Is this even a possibility? To assess that, one must take stock of how public resources have… Continue reading On the Edge: University Education in Sri Lanka by Kaushalya Perera

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