Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Higher Education Minister Rauff Hakeem said yesterday 1,987 students had abandoned their education because of ragging after they were enrolled at state universities. He told Parliament that the government had adopted a zero-tolerance policy whee ragging was concerned, but it was continuing. “We are taking effective action […]

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Senaka Weeraratna This is a story of a child genius who shone brilliantly at Royal College, Colombo when the school was located at St. Sebastian Hill, Hulftsdorp. A Royal College Magazine of that period devotes 3-4 pages to his invention and heaps praise on him. Bertram Elibank Devepurarathna was the inventor of a mechanism that […]

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By Kamanthi Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror It would be a nerve-wrecking experience for a 12-year-old to answer degree-level questions within seconds on a reality TV show. But it was a piece of cake for Nishi Uggalle, now 13, who was adjudged Child Genius 2019 at the recently concluded Channel 4’s Child Genius contest. Born to […]

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Courtesy dutchnews.nl The Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam is starting talks with Sri Lanka and Indonesia about some 1,000 pieces in its collection that may have been stolen and become part of the Dutch ‘colonial heritage’, Trouw reports. The move comes after last week’s decision by the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures (NMWC) to publish guidelines […]

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ABC Alice Springs By Emma Haskin Five students from Alice Springs have swapped their classroom for the jungles of Sri Lanka, helping to keep elephants from crops and building a school for primary students. St Philips College is one of 18 schools across Australia to get involved with Round Square — a global charity providing experiential learning […]

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KALANA KRISHANTHA Courtesy Ceylon Today The education system of the Scandinavian country, Finland, currently considered as the world’s best education system, will be introduced to Sri Lanka through the newly initiated ’compulsory 13-year education for all students’ programme, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today (21). While participating in the launching ceremony of the programme, at Temple […]

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Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, February 21 (AIR): In Sri Lanka, 150 students from all 25 districts were awardedthe prestigious Mahatma Gandhi scholarships for study in India. Sri Lankan education minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam and Indian High Commissioner Taranjit Singh Sandhu gave the scholarships at a special ceremony held in Colombo on Wednesday. This is the twelfth year […]

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