Impact of globalisation on university education

When reading the series of Gunadasa Amerasekara’s novels beginning with “Gamanaka Mula”, what strikes the readers is how knowledgeable university students were in the 1950s!

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Asia helps feeble West in global recovery: OECD

Asia is leading the global economy out of the deepest downturn in decades, but the recovery will be marred by high unemployment and huge government debt across the industrialised countries, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said.

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Report on ‘Mass atrocities’ in Sri Lanka:

US State Department takes two steps back

Office of War Crime Issues is one of the offices of the US State Department that reports directly to the Secretary of State. This office advises the Secretary of State directly and formulates US policy responses to atrocities committed in areas of conflict and elsewhere throughout the world.

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