{"id":56488,"date":"2016-07-11T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56488"},"modified":"2016-07-11T15:32:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:32:41","slug":"solution-for-saitem-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/11\/solution-for-saitem-students\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLUTION FOR SAITEM STUDENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Minister who paved way for to establish SAITEM is conveniently keeping away from the problems faced by the students who are facing due to protests by the GMOA.<\/p>\n<p>GMOA and the\u00a0 students who may have had better qualifications in A level may not be happy to allow SIATEM qualified students to be given Internship assignments, but we have to mindful about the parents who have spent money to educate their children<\/p>\n<p>I was having an early morning walk with an Ex minister of Higher education who ,was suggesting that GMOA should allow the current batch to practice as long as they are told to do Act 16 exams and provide registration exactly the way foreign graduate are allowed \u00a0to practice.<\/p>\n<p>GMOA as a trade union can be an equity holder of the SAITEM which should be taken over by the government leaving minority shares to the current owners .( to be fair for the efforts they have put in)<\/p>\n<p>Another option may be select next batches of students who just missed Z score by few points to enter SAITEM and the government provides loans like in UK to cover the fees after checking their payment capacity.<\/p>\n<p>We spend our hard earned foreign currency to send students to study medicine abroad and never complain about the basic qualifications they had ,but allow them to practice after passing Act 16.Most of the people here do not even know the standard of education they are receiving .<\/p>\n<p>After getting fee education quite a few migrate to other countries and we keep mum about the fact that they got the education from tax payers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n<p>In all the other fields of education like engineering ,nobody bothers to check the standard of education they receive ,but insist that they pass CEI exams to get the chartership.<\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t we adapt a similar practice vis a vis SAITEM students?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarath Obeysekera Minister who paved way for to establish SAITEM is conveniently keeping away from the problems faced by the students who are facing due to protests by the GMOA. GMOA and the\u00a0 students who may have had better qualifications in A level may not be happy to allow SIATEM qualified students to be given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}