University education – the oracle has spoken!
April 22nd, 2009 - By Kalpana Ambrose
Written to Island by: A Realistic Parent Dehiwela. http://www.island.lk/2009/04/22/opinion5.html The once revered guru of medical education, Prof. Carlo Fonseka, now says that undergraduate education is not a cost- effective or worthwhile undergraduate exercise and that it does not matter where and how students acquire knowledge, skills etc., as computer- assisted learning can do much better than hack teachers like us! As a parent of a medical graduate of a foreign university I am astonished by these comments as the quality of teaching and imparting of clinical skills can vary so much between so called reputed medical schools abroad. In some medical schools there is hardly ...





