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The suspended students of the Peradeniya University were given bail on Friday after the University administration said in writing it would not ‘push’ the Police to proceed with the case against them though another blow for the students seems to be on the way. Peradeniya University Registrar Ranjith de Alwis told The Sunday Times that the Police may file another case in courts acting on the complaint made by the University administration regarding the detention of the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Registrar and three Faculty Deans in the Senate House on October 23 by the students.“We made the complaint to the Police ...

Parents of Isipathana MMV students have strongly objected to a decision to give on lease a land opposite the college to the Milinda Moragoda Foundation claiming that President Mahinda Rajapaksa had earlier promised to donate it to the school. The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) under whose purview the plot of land comes has leased it to the Moragoda Foundation in late 2004 for at least 25 years while the students’ parents and Old Boys of the college had been kept in the dark about the deal.   President Rajapaksa - then the Prime Minister - had given an assurance while addressing a ...

Teachers are going ahead with a two-day strike in schools throughout the island as the dead-lock between the National Salaries and Cadres Commission (NSCC) and the teachers’ unions continues. The strike to be held tomorrow and on Tuesday is expected to cripple functions of most schools in the country, except in certain parts of the Northern and Eastern Provinces where the teachers would not be taking part in the protest campaign. However the unions have sent out leaflets calling teachers in the north and east also to join the trade union action. Salaries and Cadres Commission co-chairman Lionel Fernando said the ...

Sri Lanka on Thursday was elected to the 58-member executive board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Sri Lanka was one of six Asian nations elected in the vote held in Paris to replace 31 members of the board. The other Asian states selected to the board are Malaysia, Soth Korea, Mongolia, Pakistan and the Philippines. Sri Lanka's permanant representative at the UNESCO, Chithrangani Wagiswara said, "its a victory for sri Lankan foreign policy " She also said that this is the second time sri lanka has been able to retain its place in the executive council. The board consists ...

The government has stopped the distribution among school teachers in the North-East of a highly controversial booklet on children's mental health.   Investigations have revealed that the book distributed by an NGO contains totally inaccurate interpretations of the Tamil separatist terrorism.  Even worse is that the publication carries an article by an LTTE leader. The Education Authorities have recalled the booklets that have already been distributed. Some officers of the Education Ministry and the National Education Institute are being questioned over the distribution of this anti-national booklet. [COLOMBO, SinhalaNet 2007.10.25 06:38PM] http://www.sinhala.net

While assuring that the salary anomalies of the teachers would be resolved before January next year, the Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha yesterday called on the teacher unions which have planned a strike on October 29 and 30 to call it off and cooperate with the government. Minister Premajayantha told a press conference yesterday that a solution to the issue regarding anomalies should be based on the recommendations of the Salaries and Cadre Committee that is appointed to look into the anomalies of the entire state sector. He said the final report of this committee is due before December 31 this ...

ඔක්. 24 - ඊයේ රාත්‍රියේ සිට පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ සිසුන් පිරිසක් විසින් බලහත්කාරයෙන් රඳවාගනු ලැබ සිටි නියෝජ්‍ය උප කුලපතිවරයාට පාලක සභාව සමග රැස්වීමකට සහභාගි වීමට අවස්ථාව ලබා දී තිබේ.  නියෝජ්ය උප කුලපතිවරයා පැවසුවේ, සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගි වීමට අවස්ථාව හිමි වුවත් තමන්ව මුදාහැර නොමැති බවයි. නියෝජ්ය උප කුලපතිවරයා පැවසුවේ, ඊයේ පස්වරුවේ මහා ශිෂ්ය සංගමය සමග පැවති සාකච්ඡා අසාර්ථක වීමෙන් පසු     සිසුන් තමන්ව මෙලෙස රඳවාගෙන සිටි බවයි.   ඔවුන් අතර පීඨාධිපතිවරුන් තිදෙනෙක්, ආචාර්ය මණ්ඩලයේ දෙදෙනෙක් සහ කාර්ය මණ්ඩලයේ පිරිසක් ද වූහ.   ඉල්ලීම් කිහිපයක් මුල් කර ගනිමින් පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ ශිෂ්‍යයන් පිරිසක් ඊයේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාල භුමියේ උද්ඝෝෂණයක ද නිරත වූහ.   මේ වන විට පන්ති තහනමකට ලක්ව සිටින සිසුන්ට එම තහනම ඉවත් කරන ලෙස ...

රාජකීය කියූ සැනින්ම සිතට ගාම්භීරත්වයක් නැඟෙන්නේ එහි එතරම්ම අභිමානයක් ගම්‍යව ඇති බැවිනි. එවන් අභිමානයකින් යුතුව කි‍්‍ර. ව. 1835 දී එවකට ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුකාර ධූරන්දර ශී‍්‍රමත් විලියම් නෝර්ටන් උතුමාණන්ගෙන් ඇරඹි කොළඹ රාජකීය විද්‍යාලය, ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ අධ්‍යාපන ක්ෂේත‍්‍රයේ නව නැම්මක් ලෙස හැ¼ඳින්විය හැක. 1963 කොළඹ රාජකීය ප‍්‍රාථමික පාසලට ඇතුළත්ව, 1976/1977 වසරවලදී රාජකීය විද්‍යාලයෙන් නික්ම ගිය 72 කණ්ඩායමේ සාමාජිකයන්ගෙන් බහුතරයකට අඩසිය වස පිරිපුන් වීම මේ ලිපියට හේතු පාදක වී ඇත. එදා මෙන්ම අද දක්වා විදුහලට දැඩි ඇල්මකින් හා බැඳීමකින් සිටින 72 කණ්ඩායම, 80 කට වඩා අධික සාමාජිකත්වයකින් සමන්විත වීම විශේෂිතය. සිංහල, දමිළ හා ඉංගී‍්‍රසි මාධ්‍ය තුනෙන්ම සිප් සතර හැදෑරූ සිසුවෝ මේ අතර වූහ. මේ පිරිසෙහි ...

Over 700 children of State transport sector employees will receive scholarships from President Mahinda Rajapaksa tomorrow in appreciation of their achievements at the G.C.E. Ordinary Level examination. Transport Minister Dallas Alahapperuma told the media yesterday that the scholarship programme titled 'Sisu Diriya' was launched with the objective of recognising the invaluable contribution made by the employees to uplift the State transport sector in the country. At the scholarship award ceremony to be held at the BMICH tomorrow, 782 children of employees serving in institutions coming under the Transport Ministry, including 30 students who obtained 10 distictions at the O/L examination, will be ...

An urgent appeal has been made to President Mahinda Rajapaksa by the All Ceylon Union of English Teachers (ACUET) requesting him to consider the feasibility of granting double pay to all public sector employees and pensioners for the month of December. The reasons for the appeal are that: Most private sector employees get double pay and bonuses for the month of December; parents are expected to buy books (other than those issued by the government), stationery, clothes shoes etc. for their children for the new school year; all consumer commodities and other items have gone up in price. Source: http://www.dailymirror.lk/2007/10/23/news/more.asp