University students of Sri Lanka to take legal action against striking teachers
Tue, Jul 17, 2012, 10:29 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

July 17, Colombo: Inter-university Student Center Convener Asanka Bulegoda says that preliminary steps have been taken to initiate legal action against the university teachers' strike.
Bulegoda points out that the students lost two months and 17 days of academic time due to the previous strike of the university teachers and another 17 days due to the strike by the non-academic university staff.
He argued that the university teachers who should be exemplary people taking students as scapegoats is a wrong move.
The student leader also argued that only a handful of university teachers have done new studies and most of them still teach based on old syllabuses although they were granted a 66.5 percent salary increase this year alone.
The striking university teachers of the Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) demand the government to grant the salary increase promised by the government in 2008, increase allocations for education up to 6 percent of GDP, free universities from politicization and grant facilities to admit children of the university teachers to the schools.