Sri Lanka as a Knowledge Hub - the Opportunities and Challenges"

Sri Lanka as a Knowledge Hub - the Opportunities and Challenges"

by Prof. M.T.R. Jayasinghe

One of the key achievements envisaged in “Mahinda Chinthana” is achieving the status of a Knowledge Hub for Sri Lanka by the year 2016.  This is a huge challenge for a country with a primarily state funded higher education sector though we have witnessed some opening up of opportunities with the private sector funded fee levying courses.  In this article, attention is mainly focused on the state sector universities that numbers 15 at the moment with full time courses and the Open University concentrating on “Distance Learning Mode”.

Advantages and disadvantages of Dispute Review Boards

Advantages and disadvantages of Dispute Review Boards           -By Eng K.Ekanayake

Introduction

It is worthwhile to mention that the contracts in the construction industry are more complex than all other type of contracts by its nature. This complex itself has paved the path for the disagreements between parties concerned to such contracts. As such it is high time to explore the available options or to create new alternatives to address this issue. In order to address the aforesaid requirements, a method called Dispute Review Board has been introduced by certain types of conditions of contracts. The DAPs Australia suggests that the DRB was first used in 1975 as a response to the high incidence of disputes being encountered on Tunneling and Dam projects in United States. As far as the FIDIC conditions of contracts are concerned this has been named as Dispute Adjudication Board. All these fall into the category of Alternate Dispute Resolution Methods. At present various guidelines and procedures have been introduced to strengthen these systems. Dispute resolution can be categorized into two main categories and they are Judicial dispute resolution and Extra Judicial dispute resolution or Alternative Dispute Resolution.

A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings

A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings | LinkedIn

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Arjuna Manamperi

M-2062

ESCaPe'13

Computer Engineering Students’ Symposium – 2013

University of Peradeniya

By Tharindu WEERASINGHE [MSc.Eng, BSc.Eng(Hons), MIEEE, AMIESL, AMCSSL]

 

It will be a great trend if undergraduates start involving in research projects in the universities during their stay. In Sri Lanka, we need undergraduates to move into researches because then there will be new findings in terms of newly grown ideas. So, universities and their administration should focus more on this fact as it is a national need as I feel. Academic programs should concentrate on theoretical work, practical work and written examinations but meantime if they show more flexibility in time tables, teaching times allowing undergraduates to think autonomously and engage in researches with their lecturers, professors or even industry people it will be a great booster for the contemporary university system of Sri Lanka.