Sri Lanka’s university system may be owed nearly Rs. 30 billion by lecturers who breached contractual bonds and agreements, including academics who went overseas without fulfilling their obligations, a parliamentary oversight committee
In the history of modern science, few figures embody the intersection of discovery, identity and institutional struggle as profoundly as Abdus Salam. Born on January 29, 1926, and remembered for his groundbreaking
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When Charlotte Buttercase’s phone rang at 2am, the final-year medical student at the University of Manchester answered because she believed there could be an emergency. The call came from an unidentified number,
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India has temporarily blocked access to the Telegram messaging application until June 22, citing allegations that the platform was used by groups attempting to defraud candidates in a national medical entrance examination,
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India is deploying military aircraft to transport national examination papers as part of an emergency effort to restore confidence in its education system following a series of exam scandals that have triggered
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Some time ago, I received an invitation from my Sri Lankan friend Ramani to join a WhatsApp group of Sri Lankans, who had studied Russian at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow at
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The following essay is based on the speech delivered by the author at a ceremony held in his honour by the Alumni Organisation of the University of Colombo on 2 June 2026
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The transition from secondary education to university is one of the most decisive moments in a young person’s life, but the way that transition is managed varies dramatically around the world. While
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The social sciences are entering a period of deep uncertainty as artificial intelligence begins to reshape how research is conducted, how data is collected, and even how findings are written and published.
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A renewed Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is raising urgent questions about whether the world has truly learned the lessons of past pandemics. According to reporting from Nature,
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Sometimes you take a shot, say yes, and end up in a place you did not expect. That’s what brought me to the Understory Festival that took place in the National Cathedral in Washington,
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The global race for technological supremacy is increasingly being fought through artificial intelligence, robotics, and scientific innovation. But according to a growing body of analysis emerging from China’s education and research sectors,
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An 80-year-old problem in discrete geometry, first posed by legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, has been solved in a way that contradicts his original conjecture, according to findings announced by OpenAI and
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“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.” – Stephen Hawking Why? The decision for Sri Lanka to formulate a National Space Policy, recently approved by the
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A prominent professor at the University of Cambridge has been stripped of a prestigious college fellowship following an investigation that upheld multiple allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct. Herbert Huppert, an 82-year-old
More Britain’s leading universities are facing an escalating academic integrity crisis after cases of students cheating with artificial intelligence nearly tripled in a single academic year. More than 2,000 undergraduates at Russell Group
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