If the recent incident is not enough to
awaken the Bone Heads who run this Govt. to see sense, I don’t know what will,
but taking both the asinine comments of the Minister of Higher Education, to
account, as he does not even know what his job is, and complacent attitude of
the bureaucrats (yes brain dead bureaucrats, who prefer to deal with such
problems by calling the police, rather than confront the students) it is quite
justifiable to abolish the Ministry and turnover all the responsibilities NOT
presently covered to the UGC.
As is well known other Ministries such
as Youth and another have taken over the tertiary institutes such as the
Vocational Training Authority, NAITA and such like, why should the Ministry be
the arbiter of whether to grant some course a degree status or not!
As I understand it the HND Accountancy
Students wanted to be treated alike with the HND Commerce Students, in as much
as they wanted their course upgraded to a degree level course, as apparently
the latter has been. The Ministry is NOT the place to decide on this, as I
know, when there were similar allegations by Students of the Allied Health
Sciences, who wanted jobs at scales on a par of doctors in the Health
Department. It is clear these students have been completely fooled by the likes
of the IUSF JVP influenced students unions to go after the wrong horse!
Come on, this minor problem could easily
have been discussed in an intellectual fashion, by intelligent student
representatives, rather than the foolishly biased masters of the IUSF who love
to give the impression that they are hard done by, and gain public sympathy for
their cause which is completely unacceptable. This was clearly achieved this
time, and both the Govt. and the Police, who they wish to always attack, bore
the brunt.
NO Ministry, NO Ward Place, NO blockage
of traffic, NO scapegoat for the troublemakers within the IUSF who completely
hijacked the HNDA request into a battle against the authorities.
It is sad the General Public again have
been completely fooled by FB photos and disinformation, to only see one side of
the problem, without realizing who caused this in the first place, and conclude
that it was planned that way. I know I have been in demonstrations myself, and
if the Police use water cannon and baton charge, I would consider it a great
success, and mercifully no one died. It is a clear trap that the Government fell
into, as their leaders are so foolish and dumb not to realize it.
Please understand that MOST of the
students in Higher Education are NOT guided by the Ministry, which has NOT even
been able to assess the zillions of Higher Education Institutions to give them
a grading to help the Consumer, (students and their parents) to judge the
quality of these Education shops!
I hope the reader can see, just like
Free Education has been translated incorrectly in Sinhala to “Nidahas Adyapanaya”
when in fact it should merely be called “Nomile Adyapanaya” so the people can
realize why its quality is NOT GOOD.
GOOD THINGS NOT CHEAP and CHEAP
THINGS NOT GOOD should
be the motto here for one to realize the conundrum! So unless it is merely
called the Ministry of State Universities, as it appears that is all they
control, and NOT EVEN NIBM or KDU (Kotelawala Defence University) whose capital
expenditure budget is 10 times that of all the Universities in Sri Lanka
combined.
I am sure an intelligent reader can get
my point here. This is another of Sri Lanka’s famous misnomers, designed by the
politicians to lead the public astray.
Added to this woe we have the traitor of
the Previous President forgetting how much he has done to destroy Education by
calling in the troops when necessary and firing live ammunition, to say that
under his administration, he NEVER USED FORCE!
Can I wonder how imbecilic our voting
public is to keep voting for him when he makes such statements! IS that the
intelligence of the voter at stake here, or the deceit of the previous President
or BOTH.
To come back to the main theme here, by
giving the reins over to the UGC, let the UGC decide if it should be degree
awarding.
In the end the value of any
qualification is based on the reputation of the institution from which the
student gets his qualification, DON’T EVER FORGET THAT! So student of the
State, please be mindful that you must agitate to improve the quality of your
institution so your qualification counts for something. I can assure you that
the employer WILL NOT CARE A RATS ASS if your qualification is a degree or
diploma as he knows its quality, and will give you a job depending on that and
your other skills. Your future is IN YOUR HANDS and not in the hands of the third
rate institutions which are giving you a third rate education, unless you do something
seriously to change the status quo.
SO IT IS ALL UP TO YOU. USE YOUR BRAIN
NOT YOUR HEART!
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