Last month I tried to estimate how much of Sri Lankan youth go overseas for studies. I found this Island article which puts a number on that estimation:Around 7,000 students go abroad for higher education annually but the Higher Education Ministry does…

Last Friday I finished my summer internship at a frontline Architecture firm in London. It was a wonderful experience, Learning things about architecture was almost “not primary” (emphasise on almost). All that I observed and learnt were an amalgam of Architecture, people, stereotypes/or absence of it and about life itself.
I was guided at work right […]

Last Wednesday, Anila Banradanike’s column for FT focused on Sri Lanka’s ‘Brain Drain’ particularly among urban youth. She complains, rightly, that there are no credible statistics available on how many people go abroad for studies. I agree, all I can…

Right now I guess every citizen must be feeling like a bunch of naughty students in a classroom. During the last year or so, the government of the country is getting more and more involved with the lives of the people who voted for them. Yes, a government should be part of the citizens of […]

The counselor of my Alma mater once told me that 40% of the kids in the primary section came from broken families. As I got to know from other sources, that in other major schools around Colombo the situation is quite similar.
Yeah it is the 21st century; separating or divorcing seems to be of no […]

Yeah, that is what you’ll hear if you listened to a leading Radio station in the country. I love this Station, but i heard it right..
The advert is meant to promote a certain open day a certain institute is having in near future. If I call this institute M:
M does not have any amount of […]

Yesterday, The Nation carried an interview on a Sri Lankan born Economics Professor in Australia. Among other interesting facts, he has mentioned;
“… We wanted to go for a closed, import substitution economy after independence. Therefore, the economy started shrinking. The growth rate remained low. And that then played an important role for […]

A friend emails me these two adverts from the Sunday Observer :(click images to enlarge)and this one..the email also goes on to say,From the early ages of our lives our parents, teachers and relatives told us so many good things about education. But …

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You know I’m always enthusiastic to look and find (some……

Former Sri Lankan Minister, and the national organizer of the main opposition UNP, S.B. Dissanayake seems to ‘get it’ when it comes to Higher Education reform. Here’s S.B. from an Interview with the Colombo Post :During 1960 to 70, our main five univer…

Summitpura pre-school Past- Present-Future(in the photo: mr. Amila Perera)

Our First pre-school 1995A trip to “Vihara Mahadevi Park” Colombo 7In the “Vihara Mhahadevi park” Summitpura pre-school

My country’s at war. I don’t pretend to know everything in this country to say whether the war is futile or useful. However, I truly wish that this would end so the killing will end with it. The families united, the roads open and people will walk free. But, will the end of war bring […]

People are learning from womb to tomb(As someone has said). So we all are learning, learning and still learning. But have you ever think of what we are learning or why? Never mind if you are not interested in learning.
Mainly, nothing is absolute no, so people are learning relative things. But after they got it, […]

When I started My blog it was just a whim that kept growing with time.. I never really thought about the world of opportunities that Open up too you when you join the ranks of bloggers out there. I do not profess to be a guru of blogging I have a long …

“Because sex education is rarely sexy,
And Erotica is rarely safe.
Putting the sexy back into safer sex.”
Ever heard of the Pleasure Project? One of the few organizations working on the “sexy” aspect of safer sex. I had the pleasure of being at one of their workshops last August, during the 8th ICAAP.
Those of us who actually […]

I finished off my Advanced Levels examinations several months back. Got my results. No complaints. I aced it. However, as I look a around many didn’t pass it, let along acing it.
if I go to the roots, most of us were forced to do our work, we were punished and every time we were punished […]

The man here in this world is to be served(not as the Creator or the Master but as only human); because, if there is something, it is because, only and, only if there is a man; that is to say, without the presence of a man there is no world, no univers…

Well Guys I started to study on the MCP (……

I think in a previous post I might have discussed the fact that I was planning on doing the SCJP exam last year.. Well I finally sat for it today… And I passed !.. The relief I felt at that Particular moment was so intense its some thing one can unde…

The language and mathematics are the foundations of human knowledge. This is a universal truth. “With” the language “depart from” the language only, man can express his feelings, thoughts and attitudes to others. Thus, the language becomes the primacy …

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If you recognize the other, that meaning you comprehend yourself; that is to say you find the other in you with all his/her qualities(good & bad) so, this process leads you to the harmoney in all aspects.

                                               
Ahh the Z-Score.A current hot topic,one of those ’hip’ things to talk about.Well at least within Sri Lanka,or maybe within “a certain community” in Sri Lanka,the Z-Score mania has been there for awhile.
You may have come across the term “Z-Score”(Pronounced “ized”score usually,and ized “is”core occassionally in Sri Lanka) if you have studied Statistics or […]

Yes, we are ready to be your oar to cross the life on spase-time. The first day to schoolThe first criket team

This is our school. We love it.Hope

Where there is a will, there is a way! The people to whom we dedicate our project …