As online education becomes the order of the day, students, teachers and parents grapple with all kinds of issues while trying to adjust to the new realities and concerns.Teachers face many challenges to provide the material through online platforms that they are unfamiliar with. It is a learning curve for all them especially for the older teachers who are not technology savvy as the younger ones. Most of...
UNP Chairman Vajira Abeywardana said that the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) which was mired in a leadership crisis was on the verge of disintegration. He said the leadership crisis within the SJB has paved the way for the emergence of leaders such as Patali Champika Ranawaka and several others as future leaders adding that this could result in the SJB splitting into several factions.Abeywardana said it was...
Their intransigent stance conflicted with their predecessors who lifted a World Cup without a cent in their pockets:Sri Lanka’s once adored cricketers left on a tour of England claiming to play for national pride but in reality becoming a permitted band of 24 rebels to whom pay was more important than coming to grips with studying their on-field opponents only to realise that a noose hung over them should...
Moving to organic farming
The government’s policy directive to create a ‘Green Sri Lanka with Sustainable Solutions to Climate Change’, is laudable. However, the operational procedure to achieve the long term goal in the agriculture sector is questionable, if not impossible.This is why the decision to ban synthetic fertiliser imports and move completely to the use of organic fertiliser in crop production has drawn many criticism...
