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Six Universities to Be Upgraded 4 Monday 5th September, 2011 The Island Home News Six universities to be upgraded igher Education Navaratne said US$1 mil- “To become Asia’s knowl- class refereed journals, for- Ministry last week lion would be allocated to edge hub we must improve eign student intake and for- Hannounced the launch each university to improve research and development eign academic teaching. Also of a special programme to infrastructure and courses. A activities,” Dissanayake said, the university should pro- upgrade six local universities, number of programmes adding that private duce globally employable allocating some US$6 million would be restructured, companies and gov- graduates,” Navaratne said. to improving teaching, training for lecturers ernment institutions For public universities to research and infrastructure to provided, and interna- should get the assis- increase the intake of inter- ‘international’ levels within tional and industry tance of local univer- the next few years. The uni- research collaborations national students, the cur- sities to conduct rent 5% cap on their numbers versities to be upgraded as boosted. research. are Colombo, Peradeniya, “Sri Lankan univer- will have to be increased. The According to glob- Moratuwa, Kelaniya, Ruhuna sities are conducting government has said it will al university rank- and Sri Jayewardenepura. less research compared increase that cap to 10% of ings, Sri Lankan uni- The government’s objec- to foreign universities. SB total enrolments by next year versities are lagging tive is for them to become Hence interacting with to attract students from other far behind. “We are not even among the top 1,000 universi- foreign universities and their Asian countries, including Contesting the Kandy Municipal Council, on the UPFA ticket, Mahendra Ratwatte, ties in the world, as part of academics will help [them] to among the best 3,000 universi- China. (son of General Anuruddha Ratwatte), commenced his election campaign by call- Sri Lanka’s aim to become a reach international stan- ties. Our target is to be with- Three more universities - ing on the prelate of Asgiriya, Most Ven. Udugama Sri Buddharakkita Thera. The knowledge hub for Asia. At dard,” he said. in the best 1,000,” said the Rajarata, Jaffna and Eastern prelate is seen tying a ‘pirith noola’ on the wrist of Mahendra Ratwatte. the moment Sri Lankan uni- Higher Education Minister minister. - have been mentioned for (Pic by Cyril Wimalasurendre, Kandy). versities do not appear in SB Dissanayake said the edu- “In order [for a universi- increased government invest- global university rankings, cation system was outdated, ty] to reach a rank above said Sunil Jayantha with local universities too 1,000, there are three criteria ment in a second phase of Navaratne, Secretary of the heavily focused on teaching that will need to be fulfilled, upgrades in the future. Wrong drugs... From page 1 Higher Education Ministry. and learning. such as publication [in] world (University world news) the drugs prescribed by identifying himself as a spe- another consultant. His per- cialist had asked him why he sonal consultant had gone to issued different kinds of drugs From page 1 35,000... a pharmacy located opposite to the Minister. the Castle Street Maternity Minister Sirisena added convictions in the United States, Hospital and given the pre- that the pharmacist admitted which led the war on terror — eight scription to pharmacist on his mistake after the consul- times more than in the decade before. duty. tant’s explanation. But the The investigation also showed: In a few minutes the pharmacy had violated the — More than half the convictions pharmacist had given the provisions of Cosmetic came from two countries accused of drugs to the consultant. When the Devices and Drug Control using anti-terror laws to crack down on consultant looked at the drugs, he Authority’s Act. If an unsuspecting dissent, Turkey and China. Turkey found that the pharmacy had issued ordinary person had been issued alone accounted for a third of all convic- different kinds of drugs to the ones those drugs, his or her life would tions, with 12,897. prescribed. Then the consultant have been in danger. — The range of people in jail reflects the dozens of ways different countries define a terrorist. China has arrested more than 7,000 people under a defini- CEB ... From page 1 tion that counts terrorism as one of Three Evils, along with separatism and Power and Energy Minister were not entitled to. extremism. Patali Champika Ranawaka earlier “Therefore, it is unfair for them — The effectiveness of anti-terror said that he would not grant what he to demand more and more from the prosecutions varies widely. Pakistan called, unfair demands by some CEB State,” he said. “In fact their salaries registered the steepest increase in ter- unions. have doubled in the last 10 years.” ror arrests in recent years, yet terror He told The Island that CEB Ranawaka said that CEB workers attacks are still on the rise. But in workers enjoyed 55 benefits, which had been given a 34-per-cent pay hike Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena shares a joke with the newly-appointed Chairman of the Sri Lanka Chamber of Pharmaceutical Industries, Vish Govindasami, and the former Spain, the armed Basque separatist other workers in the public sector in 2003 and a 26-per-cent hike in 2006. Chairman of the SLCPI, Ananda Samarasinghe, during the Annual Awards Ceremony of group ETA has not planted a fatal bomb the SLCPI. in two years. — Anti-terror laws can backfire. Authoritarian governments in the West’s criticism... From page 1 Middle East used anti-terror laws broad- Rehab... From page 1 ly, only to face a backlash in the Arab the region to the influence of While Indian did not perceive the Spring. both China and Iran. Chinese role as ill-intentioned, nor investigating LTTE extortion and Jaffna,” Rajaguru said. “There’s been a recognition all In the January, 2010, interaction, wish to counter it, Tirumurthi high- fund raising operations. The official said that three of the around the world that terrorism really joint secretary T S Tirumurthi said lighted that India last December Commissioner General of seven remaining camps could be shut does pose a greater threat to society,” the elections in Sri Lanka should be extended a $425 million line of credit Rehabilitation Maj. Gen. Nandana down in the near future. said John Bellinger, former legal advis- welcomed and they would mark a to Sri Lanka that had however got no Rajaguru yesterday told The Island The External Affairs Ministry said er to the U.S. State Department. “Also, new phase in resolving the Tamil attention. that as many as 1,500 LTTE cadres that those attacking Sri Lanka on the more authoritarian countries are using question democratically. India was A Sri Lankan first secretary in could be released by the end of this human rights front had conveniently the real threat of terrorism as an excuse confident that if the vote is closely the embassy at New Delhi told US month from rehabilitation facilities. forgotten the successful post-war reha- and a cover to crack down in ways that divided it would diplomats that “that Asked whether the rehabilitation bilitation process. External Affairs are abusive of human rights.” motivate the victor some of the rail proj- process could be com- Minister Prof. G. L. Since 9/11, almost every country in to consider the ects were funded in pleted this year, Maj. Peiris told The Island the world has passed or revised anti-ter- views of the other part by the Chinese, so Gen. Rajaguru said that that Sri Lanka’s rehabil- ror laws, from tiny Tonga to giant camp. it would be “very there were only 2,700 itation process was China. “The pattern of embarrassing” if the LTTE cadres, including proof of the govern- Yet terrorism in Pakistan is still on Chinese assistance Indians did not com- about 100 women at ment’s commitment to the rise, and only Iraq beats Pakistan to the needy north- plete their section.” seven rehabilitation national reconciliation. for deaths from terror. One reason may ern areas of Sri The cable also stat- camps. Minister Peiris empha- be a conviction rate of only 10 percent Lanka would not uphold democratic ed that Tirumurthi’s comment that The official said that sized that the comple- in terrorism cases, compared to 90 per- ideals and human rights. Indian India was not trying to counter 24 rehabilitation centers tion of rehabilitation cent in the U.S. security, defence, and ethnicity-relat- Chinese influence in Sri Lanka had received 11,951 men and women for process within three years after the Like Pakistan, Spain is no stranger ed interests are directly affected by should be taken with a grain of salt. post-war rehabilitation. “Of them only conclusion of the conflict was a to terrorism, but has had some success Sri Lankan actions. In this regard, “Our contact at the Sri Lankan High 2,700 remained with us, and they, too, tremendous and unprecedented fighting it. Spain has about 140 convic- India welcomed U S engagement and Commission hit the bull’s eye with will be released in batches before the achievement. The Minister said that tions a year, according to data from AP’s saw the U S abstention on the IMF his comment that India might be end of this year. With the gradual Sri Lanka had been releasing LTTE freedom of information request. vote as a signal of a pragmatic embarrassed if they could not match release of former LTTE cadres, the cadres, whereas those pushing the gov- ETA, the Basque separatist group, approach,” the cable says of the Chinese contributions to reconstruc- government closed down rehabilitation ernment of Sri Lanka to do away with once was responsible for killings every Indian position.
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