Why not enough Universities in Sri Lanka?

[arul]

It is a known issue for very many years, that the higher education facilities such as universities technical colleges and carrier based higher education institution are not enough to cater the demand.

This is one of the reason many youths are seeking enterence to forening univierties such as Russia and India, while the cash rich familiers are sending their sons and daughers to Ameraica, Europea nd Australia.  The bad part of this is that there are very high chances that the country may lose these capable youths, whereby they will get used to the foring life and seek foreing employent, and at the same time the country is losing foreing exchange too.

The worse part is that thouse poor families who can not efford foreing education are left out with nothing.

Why the government is taking this as an oppuruntity and start budilg for higher educaiton facilties in the coutnry?

[pdxpdx]

Are all of the schools in Sri Lanka public?

[marriedasrilankan]

i'm not sure, but I think my husband said they are. And, which I could very well be quite wrong on this topic, they are free, just like public high schools are. Which, means their is a lot of competition to get in to them bc they are free and their are only so many slots.

[pdxpdx]

Really?

See, take for example my city alone - we have public colleges and private colleges. Public colleges are funded by the state and the private colleges are funded privately thru tuition, alumni, or other sources. Private colleges are worlds better than public schools. Better buildings, faculty, curriculum's, tuition, all of it. It's just that private schools are worlds more difficult to get accepted into also.

Compare Harvard to Boston Community College or Reed College to Portland State University or Purdue to Illinois State, etc. Harvard, Reed and Purdue all being private.

[« ÐÅMÎ€Ñ »]

All the government schools/universities are public. And they are free. Its not hard to get in to a school (well its hard to get into a famous school like Royal or Visaka). but to get in to a government university is really hard. Once some one had said the university entrance exam is the most competitive exam in the world.

Again then if you have money there are private schools, international schools and private universities that are attached to foreign universities and offers foreign degrees.

[marriedasrilankan]

so i guess the reason people go for the public schools, is bc it's free? if people can afford the private schools or to send their kids internationally do they most of the time and just bypass the public schools?

[« ÐÅMÎ€Ñ »]

well.. In Sri Lanka public schools are well trusted upon. I went to a public school and  got in to a public university too. My parents could not afford sending me to an international school. Even if they did I dont think they will send me to because there aren't many private/international schools compared to public schools. And those private/international schools are mostly located close to bigger towns.

[marriedasrilankan]

Do all fields in Sri Lanka look highly upon US degrees and pay more if you have a US education?

[pdxpdx]

Wow, that's great that university (public is free). United States needs to figure that system out. If everyone could go to University for free, everyone (or most to everyone) would go.

[marriedasrilankan]

which, would explain why it is a highly competitive system. a university would probaly cost more to operate and I'm sure government assumes, that not every single person who graduates high school will go to university, even if it is free, so I'm sure that they ended up with not enough spaces for the ones who do want to go.

[« ÐÅMÎ€Ñ »]

yes and as I said before the university entrance exam is very very competitive. Not many get through the exams with enough marks to get to a university.

[pdxpdx]

This is really interesting Good topic.

[wimal]

Well I am back after long holidays

Yes, we need more and more higher education facilities governmental or private..

I was told that every year there are closed to 75000 students passing out secondary examination (A/L), out of which only 15,000 are lucky enough to get admission to Sri Lankan universities, so where are the major chunk of the prospective students goes? Those who has money go abroad to get university educations, and those who don't have money

[marriedasrilankan]

It makes me very sad  to think that there are students with good marks, but not quite good enough who just can't afford to go to school.

[« ÐÅMÎ€Ñ »]

During my time (I think it still is) the passing marks for the university is based on the district you took the exam in as well as the percentage that has to be passed..