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In Sri Lanka, teachers resist Bill militarising education
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Uproar over attempt to privatise and militarise HE
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-Strict announcement from FUTA
(Lanka-e-News-07.May.2021, 4.35 PM) In the name of national security, a bill called Kotalawela National Defense University Bill is to be introduced with the aim of militarizing universities and higher education. Explaining its danger, the Federation of University Teachers Associations (FUTA) calls on all faculty, students, civil society and citizens of the country to oppose it. The full text of that announcement as follows.
Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) Statement on Proposed Kotalawela National Defense University Bill
The Federation of University Teachers Associations (FUTA) notes with grave concern the current moves to resurrect the Kotalawela National Defense University (KNDU) Bill. This Bill was first proposed in 2018 and the Sri Lankan academic community expressed its strong opposition to the bill at the time. The KNDU bill threatens to fundamentally change the state higher education landscape in the country by creating
‘Universities are losing grants and accreditation’
Universities in Telangana are without vice-chancellors for the last 18 months while thousands of vacancies are combinedly damaging the image of the varsities while academics are severely hit due to the indifferent attitude of the Telangana government, charged speakers at a roundtable.
The meeting, organised by the Osmania University Teachers Association (OUTA), was attended by N. Ramchander Rao, MLC from BJP, Dasoju Sravan Kumar, AICC spokesperson, Prof. B. Bucha Reddy, former chairman, Federation of University Teachers Association, Prof. D. Manohar Rao, chairman, Telangana State Retired Teachers Association, Prof. G. Laxman, Prof. Battu Satyanarayana, former president, OUTA., among others expressed their concern over the pathetic situation in universities.
Prof. Amaratunge has been one of those very few persons whom I have approached in confidence and have never been disappointed in receiving wiser counsel
I would like to convey our gratitude to Prof. Amaratunge for the valuable contributions he has made for the upliftment and smooth running of the Open University of Sri Lanka.
It gives me a great pleasure in penning this felicitation message to my colleague and friend, Senior Professor Sampath Amaratunge at the request of his students and well-wishers from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
Even though I had heard of Prof. Sampath Amaratunge sometime back, especially during his tenure as the President of the Federation of University Teachers Association, I got the opportunity to personally meet him and closely interact with him only since June 2015 when both of us served as the Vice-Chancellors of our respective Universities.
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