Private Education In Sri Lanka Case Study

The way Forward Sri Lanka needs to establish Good Private Universities, Professional Institutions and Technical Colleges
The free education should be protected and developed further to cater to the talented students in the country. It is important to further develop free education in the country to be more systematic and produce employable graduates to take up the challenges and to harness opportunities globally. The sad part of this process is that every child in Sri Lanka will not get the same opportunity to achieve what he or she would like to be. Out of the 250,000 students or so who sit the GCE Advanced Level examination only 25,000 get selected to state universities every year. There are 225,000 students who do not get an opportunity
Liyanage explained previously the country needs private institutions that could offer world class courses to meet future challenges in our country. This will lead to the creation of new jobs in Sri Lanka. The Government will have to take the lead role by inviting all stake holders for a debate and through that formalizing a strategy to encourage good private universities to be set up in the country. Otherwise the country will face a huge unrest among youth looking for a higher education and a way to overcome unemployment and the social issues as we experienced during past. We are not late but need to find solutions to this issue as soon as possible. The most important thing is the quality of knowledge you obtained from the education and it is immaterial whether it is from a Government or a private university/ institute. Either party could provide a quality education to students. There is no Government knowledge or private knowledge. The knowledge is the knowledge you grain from quality higher education stated Dr. Liyanage. Once the competition is created between state and private sector universities, the state universities will be compelled to raise its bar and will start adopting new strategies to provide an employable education to meet the challenges in the country as well as
Once the private universities/ institutions are established and it will automatically lead to the conducting of more research oriented work at universities and also to enhancing the educational system to produce employable graduates. It will also lead to innovation and producing novel concepts to the world an area where Sri Lankans are way behind at the moment. The involvement of the Government should be in the form of subsidizing the tuition and scholarships to the really talented. Since the Government will not have to spend taxpayer’s money for the development of the infrastructure and operating cost of these private universities/ institutions the Government could utilize the funds saved for subsidizing tuition and awarding scholarships. Such a system, through creating competition for the state universities, may actually motivate the state universities. Otherwise, having no competitors, the Government universities are in danger of becoming complacent. It will also prevent the mass exodus of students leaving the country. The country needs ‘job creators’ in the place of ‘job seekers’, departing from the templated education that students are accustomed to. Additionally, it may prevent the national income from flowing out of the country to foreign universities every year. This could be done by getting all stakeholders together to find a suitable