Sri Lanka’s Education Ministry is preparing to implement the second phase of its proposed education reforms next year, as the government faces the challenge of securing public understanding and political support for
Sri Lanka’s Education Ministry is preparing to implement the second phase of its proposed education reforms next year, as the government faces the challenge of securing public understanding and political support for
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Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University have been awarded the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for research that changed
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Sri Lanka’s state universities are struggling to recruit and retain senior academics as lecturers leave for overseas employment, creating staffing shortages that threaten their ability to accommodate a growing student population. The
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International postgraduate education has become a major source of economic activity for Spain, with foreign students enrolled in master’s and other postgraduate programmes generating an estimated €3.27 billion for the economy, according
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Part 2 The instrument we no longer have Something was lost in the twentieth century and has never been replaced. The Third International was dissolved in 1943, a wartime accommodation to allies
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A senior figure in Sri Lanka’s Frontline Socialist Party has claimed that two-thirds of the country’s population has fallen into poverty under the current administration, while 21% of children under the age
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Gonzalo Suárez is being presented anew as a pioneering figure in Spanish literature and cinema, with Javier Cercas arguing that the writer and filmmaker was the country’s first truly postmodern author. The
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China is offering 15-year research grants to a select group of exceptionally talented young scientists as it seeks to strengthen basic research and accelerate technological development. The initiative, announced by Dou Xiankang,
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A new biography of Stephen Hawking presents the renowned physicist not simply as a scientific celebrity who overcame severe disability, but as a researcher whose relationships, intellectual clarity and determination were central
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This interview traces Professor Jayadeva Uyangoda’s journey from JVP revolutionary to political scientist, examining his early experiences of poverty, caste and inequality, his role in the 1971 uprising, imprisonment at Welikada, and
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The capitalism that governs much of modern economic life is not a natural expression of human behaviour but a historical system that emerged in particular places and gradually expanded across societies, according
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Once upon a time, children’s publishing depended on writers, illustrators and editors to create characters and stories that could travel beyond the page and enter the shared imagination of generations. Now, an
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For two centuries, mathematicians have struggled with a deceptively simple question: can the equations that describe the movement of fluids suddenly break down? Now, according to reporting by New Scientist, OpenAI says
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The research team recovered 8173 arthropod remains, of which 8082 could be taxonomically identified, representing a minimum number of 5792 individuals. The remains included species associated with human decomposition as well as
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The latest PISA assessment presents an unusually stark picture of educational performance. More than 760,000 15-year-old students across 91 participating countries and economies were assessed, producing evidence of broad declines in some
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