Comments on: Strengthening North and East education for sustainable peace http://www.newsrilanka.com/2009/06/strengthening-north-and-east-education-for-sustainable-peace/ Help Rebuild & Develop Sri Lanka Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:32:36 +0530 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tara demel http://www.newsrilanka.com/2009/06/strengthening-north-and-east-education-for-sustainable-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-246 tara demel Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:41:40 +0000 http://newsrilanka.com/?p=251#comment-246 this is an excellent forum to sensitize people and to examine the different views connected to developing education in the former war-zone. This long, long, overdue area of work needs to be expedited primarily by the many non-govt actors in education in concert with the NE Education officials. How much longer time is needed for those in authority to realise that, it will be education, education and education alone, that will prevent the re-emergence of terrorism? this is an excellent forum to sensitize people and to examine the different views connected to developing education in the former war-zone. This long, long, overdue area of work needs to be expedited primarily by the many non-govt actors in education in concert with the NE Education officials. How much longer time is needed for those in authority to realise that, it will be education, education and education alone, that will prevent the re-emergence of terrorism?

]]> By: Robert Sanderson http://www.newsrilanka.com/2009/06/strengthening-north-and-east-education-for-sustainable-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Robert Sanderson Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:32:11 +0000 http://newsrilanka.com/?p=251#comment-128 Excellent theory. What boggles my mind is why the Sri Lankan government will deny access to UNICEF to build temporary schools for the IDP students ? Why the Sri Lankan government is forcing the IDP students to write the A/L exams as the rest of the Sri Lanka, while denying to cover even the basic material costs to educate the students ? Tamil teachers are allowed by the Ministry of Education to go on No Pay Leave if they want to bring these students to up to date. I can only see hypocrisy in your article and your government behaviour, no real value towards peace building. Excellent theory.

What boggles my mind is why the Sri Lankan government will deny access to UNICEF to build temporary schools for the IDP students ?

Why the Sri Lankan government is forcing the IDP students to write the A/L exams as the rest of the Sri Lanka, while denying to cover even the basic material costs to educate the students ? Tamil teachers are allowed by the Ministry of Education to go on No Pay Leave if they want to bring these students to up to date.

I can only see hypocrisy in your article and your government behaviour, no real value towards peace building.

]]> By: Skywalker http://www.newsrilanka.com/2009/06/strengthening-north-and-east-education-for-sustainable-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Skywalker Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:09:56 +0000 http://newsrilanka.com/?p=251#comment-32 I've been very interested in understanding the educational landscape in the North - its infrastructure, graduation rates, access to technology, number of students etc. I was very pleased to come across this post today. As a Sri Lankan involved in educational technology in the US, strangely some of the challenges mentioned here are not unlike the challenges mentioned by schools in inner cities (of course on a different scale!) I was very excited to read about the young A/L student of St. Vincents’ Girls’ High School in Batticaloa - what do we need to do to catapult students like this to the next level? Technology is one tool that is being used in countries like India and Bangladesh to 'bridge the gap'. Mobile learning and projects such as the MILLEE project show some promise...how do we get our own home grown versions of this? Or can we leverage what is already out there? I think what's needed is a forum for the private sector, university students who are considering their thesis topic and other professionals to come together (either online) or offline formally or informally (see the model that is used in the US via meetup.com that is used very successfully) to do some strategic brainstorming. An hour a month to dedicate to this effort is not much. But who will take the initiative? I’ve been very interested in understanding the educational landscape in the North – its infrastructure, graduation rates, access to technology, number of students etc. I was very pleased to come across this post today. As a Sri Lankan involved in educational technology in the US, strangely some of the challenges mentioned here are not unlike the challenges mentioned by schools in inner cities (of course on a different scale!)

I was very excited to read about the young A/L student of St. Vincents’ Girls’ High School in Batticaloa – what do we need to do to catapult students like this to the next level? Technology is one tool that is being used in countries like India and Bangladesh to ‘bridge the gap’. Mobile learning and projects such as the MILLEE project show some promise…how do we get our own home grown versions of this? Or can we leverage what is already out there?

I think what’s needed is a forum for the private sector, university students who are considering their thesis topic and other professionals to come together (either online) or offline formally or informally (see the model that is used in the US via meetup.com that is used very successfully) to do some strategic brainstorming. An hour a month to dedicate to this effort is not much. But who will take the initiative?

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