Editorial, Sunday Observer 19th January 2020

A New Approach To Student Issues.

We all know what a university students’ protest used to look like: hordes of placard-carrying students pushing against road barriers and riot police, with police resorting to the use of water cannons and tear gas. But the expectation turned totally the opposite as president Gotabaya Rajapaksha instructed the police and PSD to let in a students delegation to discuss their problems rather than letting them create a huge fuss. This took both sides by surprise but the relief was also written on the faces of both, the students and the police, for a student - police clash is one that no one relishes, least of all the public caught in the middle for no fault of their own.
The government, which is formulating guidelines for studies abroad after the tragic deaths of three Sri Lankan students in Azerbaijan, is keen to ensure more educational opportunities locally for students with G.C.E. Advanced Level qualifications. If the government, as well as the private sector, can ensure that a high standard of education is provided by local universities and other higher educational institutions, it may even be possible for us to start attracting international students to study in Sri Lanka and convert the higher education sector into a foreign exchange earner for the country, President Gotabaya Rajapaksha said, addressing the convocation of the General Sir John Kotelawala defence university held at the BMICH last week.    

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