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 a region long shaped by linguistic diversity and political complexity, a university department in northern Sri Lanka is quietly redefining the future of higher education and employment. Speaking in an interview
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In the annals of Kotelawala Defence Academy (KDA) and Sri Lanka’s broader military academic heritage, the year 1979 stands as a defining turning point, when vision met purpose with uncommon clarity. Recognizing
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First, let us consider the nature of this discipline and what it studies. If we look at the history of philosophy and political systems, we will see the following regularity. Philosophy and
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Hannah Arendt raises the question of solidarity against the backdrop of a broken world. In the wake of totalitarianism, she insists, the Western tradition itself is irretrievably broken. That tradition began, as
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Cuba has launched a sweeping reorganization of its national science framework, positioning research and innovation at the core of its economic strategy as the country grapples with persistent external constraints. The overhaul,
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South Korea and Google have agreed to establish a major artificial intelligence campus in Seoul, marking what officials describe as the first facility of its kind for the U.S. tech giant. The
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Earlier this year, a little-noticed institutional complaint was filed against the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. It did not challenge a specific policy position or legal argument. Instead, it raised
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A group of teenage girls gathers quietly in front of a locked school gate in the western Afghan city of Herat. Some turn their backs to the camera, others cover their faces.
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Do you know Sri Lanka’s Northern Islands, which are not connected to the mainland by causeways and can only be reached by boat or ferry? They are Eluvaitivu, Analaitivu, Nainativu, and Delft
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Slavoj Žižek dreams in patterns of confusion, delay, and bureaucratic frustration. In one recurring sequence, he is attempting to meet a friend, but nothing aligns correctly. Addresses are wrong, communication fails, and
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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on an interview with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon conducted by CBS Evening News. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon speaks with the authority of a
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Teachers’ trade unions are protesting against what they describe as a political witch-hunt against some of their members who did not attend a meeting chaired by Prime Minister and Minister of Education
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Professor Wasantha Athukorala of the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Peradeniya has revealed a significant decline in the country’s school population over the past seven years. Between 2019
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by Nil Milind Sharma’s The Quantamental Revolution arrives with the unmistakable confidence of a manifesto, a text that seeks not merely to describe a transformation in finance but to accelerate it. From
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A new paper in Nature highlights a modest scientific finding but a momentous shift in how research itself is being done. Researchers at the Tokyo-based company Sakana AI used an artificial-intelligence system
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