As I walk down
the road by the DS School on Gregory’s and I see the worried looks of the
students just about to go into the class room to sit their respective A level
tests, and then I open the news papers in the office a few minutes later and
discover that yet another question paper has dubious credibility, I wonder if
there is any credibility left in the SL examination system.
I don’t think
that ever in the history of this country there has been such a degree of mess
up in the education system. Soon after the Z score fiasco that has not been
resolved as yet, and students who sat the A levels OVER A YEAR AGO wait to know
even if they have been selected to get into University, I think it is right for
all citizens of honorable intent to question the whole legitimacy of the
Government that tumbles from one disaster to another. I do not want to go into
the questions such as adulterated diesel, and just wish to concentrate on the
education sector alone as that has produced sufficient doubt in the minds of
our people, to severely call into question the whole structure of education in
Sri Lanka.
Add to this the
unemployability of many who go through the State Education Sector, and their loss
of faith, is a problem that is boundless! Most people have little choice. Not many
are able to send their kids to private education and overcome the hurdles of the
state system. So the students who are wasting away, seeing their competitors in
the private sector get ahead due to the speed with which they roll from A levels
to courses, and graduate at age 21 when the students only enter Universities in
the state sector at that age, are left wondering what has hit them.
The government appears
to be quite unable to grasp the seriousness of this issue. When a country’s examination
system, that all students expect to give them the entre into the world of tertiary
education and beyond, is fraught with an unholy mess of credibility, hopes of youth
have been dashed. It is the lifeline that young people have to improve their lives,
as other avenues are not as well developed in Sri Lanka.
The time is ripe
for a rethink of what the nation deems its duty to its citizens, namely the youth
who hold the future of the nation in their hands. It is simply the word education
that has to be re engineered to suit the modern day, and removed from bureaucratic
and state clutches.
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